militant

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mil·i·tant /ˈmɪlɪtənt/ adjectiveadj

EXTREMEa militant organization or person is willing to use strong or violent action in order to achieve political or social change 〔组织或人〕好斗的，暴力的，激进的

militant political activists

激进的政治活动家

a militant animal rights group

激进的动物权利保护团体

After the assassination of Martin Luther King, black leaders became more militant.

马丁•路德•金遇刺后，黑人领袖变得更为激进了。

—militant noun [countableC]

right-wing militants

右翼激进分子

—militancy noun [uncountableU]

an increase in trade union militancy

工会激进行为的加剧

—militantly adverbadv

a militantly anti-communist group

激进的反共团体

Examples from the Corpus

militant• It fell to later apostles to make public religion more militant.• And even if the defence took militant forms, its boundaries were defined by extant relations of production.• Yassin is the founder of the militant Islamic movement Hamas.• Although the court found that she was not a militant member of the guerrilla group, she received a maximum sentence.• The United States saw the militant nationalist Lumumba as a commun ist sympathiser.• militant nationalists• The Reform commission soon became the most militant of all the defense agencies.• This latest move is seen mainly as a sop to the increasingly militant, student-led protests demanding an immediate trial.

Origin militant

(1400-1500) Latin present participle of militare “to be a soldier, take part in war”, from miles; → MILITARY1

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