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From French pacifiste, equivalent to pacific +‎ -ist.

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pacifist (plural pacifists)

  1. One who loves, supports, or favours peace.
    Mahatma Gandhi was one of the world's most famous pacifists.
    1. One who prefers to avoid violence in daily life.
    2. One who is anti-war.
      • 2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage:
        No matter what pacifist "flubdubs and flapdoodle mollycoddles" might say, the President [Teddy Roosevelt] knew that if there were a general war then America could well be drawn into it.
    3. One who both abstains from inflicting violence on others and opposes others doing so.
  2. (video games, roguelikes) A player who attempts the challenge of winning a game without attacking any enemy characters.

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pacifist (comparative more pacifist, superlative most pacifist)

  1. Of or relating to pacifism; pacifistic.
    • 2010, Charles R. Pinches, Kelly S. Johnson, Charles M. Collier, Unsettling Arguments: A Festschrift on the Occasion of Stanley Hauerwas's 70th Birthday, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, page 129:
      Therefore, because Hauerwas is a United Methodist, a church that is clearly not pacifist even if it is not clear what it is, he is not (yet) a pacifist.

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Dutch

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Borrowed from French pacifiste or English pacifist.

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  • IPA(key): /ˌpaː.siˈfɪst/
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  • Hyphenation: pa‧ci‧fist
  • Rhymes: -ɪst

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pacifist m (plural pacifisten, feminine pacifiste)

  1. a pacifist
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Romanian

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Borrowed from French pacifiste.

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pacifist m (plural pacifiști)

  1. pacifist

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Serbo-Croatian

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pacìfist m (Cyrillic spelling пацѝфист)

  1. pacifist

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pacifist c

  1. a pacifist

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