mil·i·tant

(mĭl′ĭ-tənt)

adj.

1. Fighting or warring.

2. Having a combative character; aggressive, especially in the service of a cause: a militant political activist.

A fighting, warring, or aggressive person or party.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin mīlitāns, mīlitant-, present participle of mīlitāre, to serve as a soldier; see militate.]

mil′i·tance, mil′i·tan·cy n.

mil′i·tant·ly adv.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

militancy

1. the state or condition of being combative or disposed to fight.
2. the active championing of a cause or belief. — militant, n., adj.

militancy

noun

1. Hostile behavior:

aggression, aggressiveness, belligerence, belligerency, combativeness, contentiousness, hostility, militance.

2. Warlike or hostile attitude or nature:

bellicoseness, bellicosity, belligerence, belligerency, combativeness, contentiousness, hostility, militance, pugnaciousness, pugnacity, truculence, truculency.

Translations

حُب للقِتال

bojovnost

millitant holdning

Kriegszustand

militantisme

harciasság

harîfylgi; árásargirni

militanza

militanlık

战斗性

militancy

[ˈmɪlɪtənsɪ] N [of group, trade union] → militancia f, combatividad m; [of person, attitude] → combatividad m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

militancy

[ˈmɪlɪtənsi] n → militantisme m
the rise of trade union militancy → l'émergence du militantisme syndical

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

militancy

[ˈmɪlɪtənsɪ] n → militanza

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

militant

(ˈmilitənt) adjective

wishing to take, or taking, strong or violent action. militant workers.

ˈmilitantly adverb

ˈmilitancy noun

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References in periodicals archive

PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister, Mahmood Khan has condemned DI Khan terror incidents and said our resolve to eliminate menace of militancy would not be affected by these acts of cowardice.

CM condemns DI Khan terrors incidents

PESHAWAR -- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister, Mahmood Khan has condemned DI Khan terror incidents and said our resolve to eliminate menace of militancy would not be affected by these acts of cowardice.

CM condemns DI Khan terrors incidents

PESHAWAR -- Popular Pashto folk singer and poet Aslam Salik has asked the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government to offer more incentives to artists and writers from Malakand and Swat districts, saying most of them have yet to overcome militancy trauma.

Incentives sought for Malakand, Swat artists

'Drug, terrorism and militancy have been identified as barriers to achieve SDGs and police is committed to ensure sustainable sincerity involving people adopting community policing concept," the IGP said at a post-procession rally here in the evening.

IGP for bridging police-people to ensure sustainable security

BSS Dhaka Describing militancy, terrorism, corruption and narcotics as wounds of society, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today called upon all to put up resistance unitedly against these menaces.

Build resistance against militancy, terror: PM

Summary: Kupwara (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], Apr 3 (ANI): Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Wednesday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the erstwhile PDP-BJP government for "growing militancy" in the state, saying their policies were responsible for pushing Jammu and Kashmir back into the era of 1990-91.

Azad blames PM Modi, erstwhile PDP-BJP govt for 'growing militancy' in J-K

The Pulwama attack and the subsequent escalation between India and Pakistan has had one unintended benefit- other than placing Pakistan on a higher moral footing due to our diplomatic efforts for de-escalation, the bilateral fiasco has also led us to re-evaluate, as a state, our approach towards the important but uncomfortable question of tackling militancy and violent religious extremism.

Uncomfortable Conversations

Rasheed said 'While Governor Satpal Malik claims that he feels pained by killing of freedom fighters and militancy cannot be eliminated by killing militants but security agencies are not only celebrating the killings but have claimed that Baramulla district has become militancy free.

Resolve Kashmir issue, so that no one even thinks of joining militancy: Er Rasheed

The convicts' counsel Barrister Mian Tajammul Shah told the court that the military court had not given his clients the opportunity to defend the allegation of militancy.

PHC suspends military court's death penalty verdicts

Not only people of Swat but people of all regions of Pakistan also remember that the Army stood by them when they faced natural calamities like floods and earthquakes, and man-made calamities like militancy and terrorism.

Case study of militancy in Swat

We do, however, have some idea of how much money has been spent fighting militancy. According to recent testimony given by Finance Minister Rana Afzal to the Senate, the state has spent close to Rs300 billion in our war against terrorism in the last decade.

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