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Definition: Militant |
MilitantAdjective1. Engaged in war; "belligerent (or warring) nations"; "a fighting war". 2. Showing a fighting disposition without self-seeking; "highly competitive sales representative"; "militant in fighting for better wages for workers"; "his self-assertive and ubiquitous energy". Noun1. A militant reformer. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "militant" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Militant \Mil"i*tant\, adjective. [Latin expression militans, -antis, present participle of militare to be soldier: compare to the French expression militant. See Militate.]. (references) |
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"I'm a militant when I say I'll pick up a rifle and protect the Constitution."
- AnonymousA militant, as commonly refered to, is descriptive of aggressive activists working and supporting a cause. A militant is a person who is eager to engage in a struggle in order to achieve their goal, thus showing a aggressive disposition without being self-serving. Militant, othertimes, can be used to mean any individual that is engaged in warfare, a fight, combat, or generally serving as a solider serving as a soldier. A militant view sometimes constitutes an extremists position. A militant state denotes being in a physically aggressive posture while in support of an ideology or cause.
Composition
A militant usually is an individual, or are a group (composed of citizens), enrolled and trained for service in a particular cause. Its ranks may be filled either by enlistment or conscription by other members. Militants are usually aggressive and vigorous in the support of a cause, such as in a militant protest. Inherent in some militant views are a quality of intolerance. The work and support of militants are commonly within the limits of international law, humanity, and civil disobedience. Some militants, though, operate outside the framework of international law, humanity, and democracy.
The term militant is used to describe those who aggressively and violently promoting a political philosophy in the name of a movement (and sometimes have a extreme solution for their goal). Common goals of modern militants include establishing dictatorships and establishing a single common government all over the world (e.g., one world government). There is little tactically in common in the various movements that seek to apply militancy as a solution, or use its terms to rationalize their solutions for issues in the modern World. Two objective things that can be said about many militants are:
- (I) They employ force or violence directly, either in offensive or defensive manner.
- (II) They justify this using the ideological rhetoric of their particular group.
Etymology
The etymology of the word comes from the 15th Century Latin "militare" meaning "to be a soldier". The modern concept of the militia as a defensive organization against invaders grew out of the Anglo-Saxon "fyrd". In times of crisis, the militiaman left his civilian duties and became a soldier until the emergency was over, when he returned to his civilian status.
Mass media
The mass media usually uses the term "militant" to describe some terrorists. The term militant is often applied to movements using terrorism as a tactic. The mass media also has repeatedly called terrorist organizations "militant groups". The term radical militant is also so applicable in these situations. The terms is used, generally, to avoid placing the label terrorism on the individuals or groups who have not actually committed violent acts.
Examples
Militants can be found over the politicalal spectrum including white supremacists, separatists, abortion opponents, and environmentalists. Examples of left-wing, right-wing, and special interest militants include militant reformers, militant feminists, militant animal rights advocates, and anarchists. Fundementalist church militantss are engaged in a constant warfare against the Christian church's enemies (though "fundamentalism" is not, by definition, militant). Militant Islam is used to describe excessively violent and aggressive political activity by Islamic individuals, groups, movements, or governments. Militant is often used in relation with Palestinians who express intentions to commit, or support, unlawful violent actions on behalf of Palestinian nationalism and statehood.
See also
Compare and contrast these related articles.Activist, Anarchists, Black Muslim, belligerent, Black Panther Party, Church militant, combat, combatant, crusader, demonstrator, extremist, fighting, fundamentalism, Islamofascist, Malcolm X, man-at-arms, mercenary, military, Militant Islam, Militant Tendency, partisan, protestor, reformer, rioter, soldier, war, warrior, zealot
Newspaper
Main article: Militant TendencyThe Militant is a socialist newsweekly published (according to the publisher) in the interests of working people. The weekly newspaper from the United States Socialist Workers Party carries extensive coverage of labor issues and events.
The Militant also maintains a mostly text version to facilitate access for those who need it.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Militant."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Militant Tendency was a Trotskyist faction within the Labour Party in the UK, practicing entryist tactics. They were most powerful during the 1970s and 1980s.Growing from the Trotskyists who remained loyal to the Fourth International after the expulsion of the previous British member, the Revolutionary Communist Party in 1951, they formed themselves into the Revolutionary Socialist League. From the start they devoted themselves to entrism cooperating with the Labour MP John Baird and the future Labour MP (and future ex-Marxist) Eric Heffer.
The newspaper The Militant was founded in 1964, when the majority of the group broke from the Fourth International.
Militant had a period of steady growth and splits throughout the late 1960s and the 1970s. In the 1980s they started taking control of various Labour Party organisations (they had sporadic control over the Labour Party's youth movement, the Young Socialists) and Constituency Labour Parties. In the mid 1980s a Militant faction took over the ruling Labour group on Liverpool city council, they were also influential in the London Borough of Lambeth. The strong links between the Militant base of Liverpool and Northern Ireland also ensured that the Labour Party of Northern Ireland (which was not linked to the mainland Labour Party) was strongly influenced by Militant.
Although they did not really share the multicultural analysis of much of the rest of the Labour Party left, they were a visible component of that coalition. Many Labour figures saw the Militant tendency as a primary reason for their "loony left" image, as portrayed by the right-wing press. Ineffective attempts to control Militant were made by party leader Michael Foot in the early 1980s, and were carried on with more vigour by Neil Kinnock. In what many people saw as a crucial stage in the turnaround of Labour, Kinnock made a speech to the Labour Party Conference in 1985 that attacked Militant entryism and their record in Liverpool Council.
The Militant tendency were very active, like many other left wing groups, in the campaign against the Community Charge or "Poll Tax".
Over the next couple of years the Labour Party machinery successfully purged Militant so that the majority of the Militant group abandoned entryist tactics and formed themselves into a separate party, first calling themselves Militant Labour (and in Scotland, Scottish Militant Labour) and latterly in England the Socialist Party, a constituent element of the Socialist Alliance which they later left in 2002. The minority in Militant, led by its founder Ted Grant and by Alan Woods went on to set up the Socialist Appeal group and the In Defence of Marxism website. The Scottish Socialist Party is led by former Militant activist Tommy Sheridan and has six MSPs.
External Links
- The Rise of Militant - the official history
- The Socialist Party's Homepage
- News report of the suspension of the Liverpool Labour Party
- The Rise of Militant book serialised
- Ted Grant's "In Defence of Marxism" website
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Militant Tendency."
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In general, a militia is the entire able-bodied population of a nation that can be called upon to defend itself against an enemy. It is distinguished from the organized military forces of that nation. It can serve to supplement the regular military as an irregular reserve, or it can oppose it, for example to resist a military coup.
U.S. and English
For much of the history of England, the military was controlled by Parliament, which had access to the resources to maintain a standing army. At various times, the Crown and Parliament were in strong disagreement, but Parliament's economic ability to use the army was counterbalanced by the Crown's traditional ability to call out the militia. As long as the army's weapons were not radically more powerful than the militia's, this balance of power was effective.
The early Puritan colonists of America considered the militia an important social structure, nessecary to defend their colonies from Native American attacks. All ablebodied white males were expected to be members of the town milita.
In the American Revolutionary War, colonial militiamen or armed citizens agreed to turn out for service at a minute's notice. The term minutemen is used especially for the men who were enrolled (1774) for such service by the Massachusetts provincial congress. These were also known as the "valiant farmers" who fought against the British at Lexington and Concord.
The Framers of the United States in keeping with this tradition, gave Congress the power to "provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia," as well as, and in distinction to, the power to raise an army and a navy. The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States may have been intended to formalize this balance between the "well-regulated" militia and organized military forces. Considerable controversy exists in the US over this amendment, however, and the ability of even a well-regulated militia to resist a modern army is debatable.
The United States Consolidated Statutes Title 10 (Armed forces), section 311 (Militia: Composition and Classes), paragraph (a) states "The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard."
The National Guard is the largest of the state militia forces in the United States. It is under both Federal and state control, and both the President of the United States and the state governor can call up the National Guard. Many National Guard units have recently served in Iraq. This can lead to problems for states that also face internal emergencies while the Guard is deployed overseas. Many of the states, such as New York and Maryland have organized state militia forces or State Guards which are under the control of the governor of a state and used to augment the National Guard.
There is also a political movement that calls itself 'militia' and is based on the common-law concept of an armed citizenry. These are not formally linked to a state or to the Federal government, and often oppose the Federal government because of what they see are oppressive policies. Most, but not all, are also opposed to illegal immigration, and several espouse white supremacy. The movement peaked in the early 1990s, but declined in popularity after the bombing of the Murrah Federal building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on April 19, 1996.
Swiss
One of the most famous, and ancient militia are the Swiss militia. It is not widely recognized, but Switzerland is the most militaristic society on Earth, maintaining more than twice as many active-duty soldiers per capita as the next-most-militaristic country, Israel, and a trained, mobilizable reserve militia of 36% of the total population. However, it should be noted that Switzerland has a long tradition of political and military neutrality.
Switzerland's militia is recruited by the Swiss national military and sports bureau. All able-bodied males are conscripted, trained and serve between the ages of 20 and 42 (52 for officers) for about a year and a half. Swiss physical education prepares young people for this training. Thereafter, men remain in the militia until the age of 50, performing a week of training each year.
To reduce training and logistics, Swiss military systems standardize on relatively few types of weapons, which are carefully selected. For example, Switzerland has one rifle, and only three types of ground-based anti-aircraft systems.
To assure professional military leadership, the Bureau also maintains professional schools for noncommisioned and commissioned officers. These require more than minimum service times.
As you can tell from the peculiar name of the training organization, military training is not a temporary horror, but a continuing set of enjoyable patriotic activities.
For military combat specialties that cannot be effectively trained in the brief national service period, such as combat pilots, commandos and military divers, the bureau pre-trains teenagers using state-supported sporting centers for glider and flying clubs, scuba-diving and parachuting. Computer based training is a growing part of formal Swiss military training and certification, which is lifelong.
All of Swiss society celebrates shooting, and skill with the rifle. For example, each year Zurich shuts down a whole day for its "Boys' Shooting Festival." Children, male and female, as young as eight and as old as seventeen compete in riflery. It is a traditional holiday.
It is absolutely commonplace to see handsome young men and pretty young women from shooting clubs. In patriotic and sports parades they march in civilian clothes with standard-issue (black) military sharp-shooting rifles. Older men shoot together with the same attitude as those that play golf in other countries.
Weapons and equipment are inexpensively available at the army surplus stores, which sell everything the army uses, especially in obsolete forms. Swiss students habitually camp in surplus army gear.
Famously, militia members keep their rifles and uniforms in their house for immediate mobilization. Swiss military doctrines are arranged in peculiar ways to make this organization effective.
For example, most armies use assault rifles, which are designed for mass fire at close range, with a willingness to accept the relatively high casualties of this approach. The explicit justification is to substitute higher casualty rates and mechanized resupply of ammunition to compensate for recruits' poor skills with weapons.
To some extent, the Swiss substitute life-long weapons training for the logistics equipment required for mass unaimed fire. Swiss rifles are designed for long-range aimed fire, and shoot heavy, high-velocity bullets. Each militiaman is issued only 50 rounds of ammunition in a can. The can, rifle and militia member are inspected and trained each year during a week of national service training. The result is a safer soldier with more skills.
Swiss building codes require radiation and blast shelters, to protect against bombing. Further, tunnels and bridges are built with tank traps, mines and explosives. Permanent fortifications are established in the Italian alps, as a base to retake the fertile valleys after an invasion.
Swiss doctrine is "Total Resistance." The Swiss plan to destroy their country totally rather than give it to an invader. Surrender is legally impossible.
Switzerland is currently reorganizing its military into a smaller, less expensive elite professional military. The country is reluctant to give up the power and romance of a large militia, but recognizes that modern weapons may well make a large group of riflemen much less effective than it once was.
However, Swiss mothers still teach their children that freedom grows from the guns of free men.
Citizens are concerned about terrorism, and passed new federal gun control legislation in 1997. Restrictive licensing is required for pistols and machine-guns, but the law has numerous exceptions for semiautomatic rifles of the types used by the militia and shooting clubs.
One famous story shows the pride and citizenship that makes the militia such a powerful part of Swiss life. It is said that Kaiser Wilhelm was touring a Swiss training depot. He stopped, and asked a Swiss recruit, "The Empire can field 500,000 men, the Swiss only 250,000. Does that worry you?"
The recruit said, "No sir. We'll just shoot twice."
Canada
In Canada the word militia refers to the part-time army reserve component of the Canadian Armed Forces. Officers and soldiers in the militia train for one or two weekends a month and for two weeks a year. They can also volunteer for service with the regular forces including peacekeeping missions overseas.
Most Canadian cities have one or more militia units. Often these 'regiments' perpetuate famous Canadian regiments that are no longer required as part of the regular forces.
Some militia regiments:
- 48th Highlanders of Canada
- Mississauga Horse
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Militia."
Synonyms: MilitantSynonyms: belligerent (adj), competitive (adj), fighting (adj), war-ridden (adj), warring (adj), activist (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Warfare | Unpacific, unpeaceful; belligerent, combative, armigerous, bellicose, martial, warlike; military, militant; soldier-like, soldierly. |
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Crosswords: Militant |
| English words defined with "militant": activism, activist ♦ Big Bill Haywood, Black Panthers ♦ combativeness ♦ Haywood ♦ Irish Republican Army ♦ Malcolm Little, Malcolm X, mercantile, mercenary, militance, militancy, moneymaking ♦ partisan ♦ suffragette ♦ The Nation of Islam ♦ William Dudley Haywood ♦ zealot. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "militant": Church Militant, Church Triumphant, CROMWELL ♦ dahmum ♦ rascality, regalia. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "militant": militancy. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Militant" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (campaigner, militant), Dutch (truculent), French (crusader, fighter, militant, wrestler), German (militant, warlike), Latin (be a soldier, fight, make war, serve as a soldier, serve in the army), Romanian (militant), Swedish (militant). |
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Screenplays | Mr. President, militant women are out to destroy college football in this country (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin.) They're an ancient commune of feminists, so radical, so militant, so left of center they they eat their men. (Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death; writing credit: J.F. Lawton) | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Militant School Ma'am (1915) The Militant (1914) A Militant Suffragette (1912) Shkrimtari militant (1978) | |
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 | Hani Jawharieh, the militant cinema martyr. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | For the socialist alternative -- read The militant. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Marius, to speak of it in passing, a republican militant, and he had proved it, was now a baron in spite of himself |
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Civil Liberties | India | Intimidation by militant groups causes significant self-censorship by journalists. (references) |
Uzbekistan | Yuldashev was sentenced to 19 years in prison for organizing an underground Islamic militant group. (references) | |
Syria | The Government considers militant Islam a threat and follows closely the practice of its adherents. (references) | |
Economic History | Uk | Manufacturing, transport and distributive trades are highly unionized, but once-common militant unionism is now rare. (references) |
Mauritius | In 1983, defectors from the MMM joined with the PSM to form the Militant Socialist Movement (MSM) and won a working majority. (references) | |
Sri Lanka | The north and east became the scene of bloodshed as security forces attempted to suppress the LTTE and other militant groups. (references) | |
Human Rights | India | Kashmiri militant groups also committed serious abuses. (references) |
India | In Manipur 18 militant groups were reportedly active, including outlawed Meitei organizations. (references) | |
India | On June 6, security forces shot a militant allegedly responsible for killing three Catholic priests. (references) | |
Minorities | India | Early in the year, eight Sikhs were killed, allegedly by an obscure militant group. (references) |
Nigeria | In January militant youths shut down three major oil facilities near the town of Warri to back demands for jobs and social amenities. (references) | |
Pakistan | Ahmadi leaders charge that militant Sunni mullahs and their followers sometimes stage marches through the streets of Rabwah, a predominantly Ahmadi town and spiritual center in central Punjab. (references) | |
Political Economy | Indonesia | Security forces in Papua assaulted, tortured, and killed persons during search operations for members of militant groups. (references) |
Solomon Islands | One faction, the paramilitary Police Field Force (PFF), primarily has been directed by militant Malaitans rather than the Police Commissioner. (references) | |
BANGLADESH | Their militant unions have succeeded in setting relatively high wages which their private sector counterparts often feel compelled to meet out of fear of union action. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | REGALIA, n. Distinguishing insignia, jewels and costume of such ancient and honorable orders as Knights of Adam; Visionaries of Detectable Bosh; the Ancient Order of Modern Troglodytes; the League of Holy Humbug; the Golden Phalanx of Phalangers; the Genteel Society of Expurgated Hoodlums; the Mystic Alliances of Georgeous Regalians; Knights and Ladies of the Yellow Dog; the Oriental Order of Sons of the West; the Blatherhood of Insufferable Stuff; Warriors of the Long Bow; Guardians of the Great Horn Spoon; the Band of Brutes; the Impenitent Order of Wife-Beaters; the Sublime Legion of Flamboyant Conspicuants; Worshipers at the Electroplated Shrine; Shining Inaccessibles; Fee-Faw-Fummers of the inimitable Grip; Jannissaries of the Broad-Blown Peacock; Plumed Increscencies of the Magic Temple; the Grand Cabal of Able-Bodied Sedentarians; Associated Deities of the Butter Trade; the Garden of Galoots; the Affectionate Fraternity of Men Similarly Warted; the Flashing Astonishers; Ladies of Horror; Cooperative Association for Breaking into the Spotlight; Dukes of Eden; Disciples Militant of the Hidden Faith; Knights-Champions of the Domestic Dog; the Holy Gregarians; the Resolute Optimists; the Ancient Sodality of Inhospitable Hogs; Associated Sovereigns of Mendacity; Dukes-Guardian of the Mystic Cess-Pool; the Society for Prevention of Prevalence; Kings of Drink; Polite Federation of Gents-Consequential; the Mysterious Order of the Undecipherable Scroll; Uniformed Rank of Lousy Cats; Monarchs of Worth and Hunger; Sons of the South Star; Prelates of the Tub-and-Sword. |
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| "Militant" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 88.67% of the time. "Militant" is used about 415 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 88.67% | 368 | 14,720 |
| Noun (singular) | 8.67% | 36 | 57,479 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.65% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Total | 100.00% | 415 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "militant": Church militant ♦ militant Tendency. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "militant": militant-dominated, Militant-in-control, militant-related. | |
Ending with "militant": non-militant. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
militant | 29 |
church consists earth militant | 5 |
militant islam | 4 |
damascus group militant office palestinian | 4 |
group islamic militant | 3 |
group militant | 2 |
militant passion | 2 |
breast feeding militant | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "militant"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | militant (campaigner), me dëshirë të luftës, luftarak (bellicose, combative, martial, military, warlike). (various references) | |
Arabic | مكافح (aggressive, fighter), مناضل (combatant, fighter, fighting, pursued, striver, struggler), مقاتل (combatant, fighter, fighting, warring), محارب (belligerent, combatant, fighter, warrior), متحارب (warring), المغوار (commando). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | войнствен (bellicose, combative, martial, warlike), нападателен (aggressive, incursive, offensive, truculent), активен (active, energetic), борец (fighter, protagonist, wrestler), боец (combatant, fighter, warrior), боек. (various references) | |
Chinese | 好战 (Belligerent, militance). (various references) | |
Czech | militantní, bojovný (bellicose, combative, fighting, warlike). (various references) | |
Dutch | vechtjas, vechtersbaas, kemphaan (fighting cock, gamecock, ruff). (various references) | |
Farsi | ستیزگر (Contentious, Quarrelsome, Warlike), جنگ طلب , اهل نزاع وکشمکش . (various references) | |
Finnish | militantti, taisteluhaluinen (combative), sotaisa (war-like), sotainen (war-like). (various references) | |
French | militant. (various references) | |
German | kämpferisch (aggressive, attacking, pugnacious, pugnaciously). (various references) | |
Greek | στρατευμένοσ, μαχητικόσ (combative, fighting), πολεμικόσ (polemic). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מלחמתי (combatant, military, warlike), לוחמ י (belligerent). (various references) | |
Hungarian | harcos (berserk, combatant, fighter, warrior), aktivista (activist), harcoló (combatant, fighting, struggler), aktíva (assets). (various references) | |
Indonesian | suka berperang, semangat baja, agresif (aggressive). (various references) | |
Italian | militante, attivista (activist). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 闘士 (boxer, champion, fighter), 戦闘的 (aggressive). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | せ"とうてき (aggressive), とうし (boxer, champion, clairvoyance, death from cold, dying by the wayside, fight, fighter, fighting spirit, freezing to death, Fujiwara family, investment, island governor, poetry of the Tang period, seeing through, stealthy glance, Tang poetry, X-ray). (various references) | |
Korean | 호 (Aggressive, Belligerent). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ilitantmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | militante, combativo (agonistic, combative). (various references) | |
Romanian | militant, rãzboinic (fighter, fighting, martial, war, warlike, warrior), luptãtor (champion, contestant, fighter, warrior). (various references) | |
Russian | воинствующий, активный (active, dynamic, in action, proactive), активист воинствующий, боевой (action, battle, combatant, combative, conning, of a battle). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | militantan, ratoboran (bellicose, belligerent, combative, pugnacious, truculent, warlike), borbeni aktivista, borben (combat, scrappy, truculent). (various references) | |
Spanish | militante. (various references) | |
Swedish | militant, stridslysten (bellicose, combative, contentious, controversial, disputatious, pugnacious, quarrelsome, scrappy, truculent, warlike). (various references) | |
Thai | เกี่ยวกับการทำสงคราม, พร้อมที่จะต่อสู้. (various references) | |
Turkish | militan, saldırgan tip, saldırgan (aggressive, aggressor, assailant, assailer, attacker, get-tough, hard-hitting, invader, offensive, pushy, thrusting), kavgacı (aggressive, bellicose, belligerent, combatant, combative, contentious, disagreeable, disputatious, fighter, litigious, pugnacious, quarrelsome, ruffian, scrappy, spoiling for a fight, turbulent, warlike, wrangler), azimli (Dauntless, dead-set on, decided, decisive, determined, dogged, flat-footed, full of zeal, hellbent, high pressure, peppy, persevering, pertinacious, professional, resolute, resolved, set, single minded, single-eyed, single-hearted, stable, stout, strong-minded, stubborn, sturdy, undeterred, zealous), atak (attack, confident, dapper, daring, dashing, gutsy, heady, mettled, mettlesome, push, pushful, pushing, rash, reckless, spunky, Venturous). (various references) | |
Turkmen | sцweюjen (energetic 1). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | воююча сторона (belligerent, combatant), войовничий (agonistic, amazonian, battailous, bellicose, combative, fighting, martial, militaristic, warlike), активіст (activist), бо"ць (combatant, fighter), бойовий (combat, combatant, combative, fighting, operational). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người chiến đấu (combatant), chiến sĩ (combatant, fighter, warrior), chiến đấu (combatant, fighting). (various references) | |
Welsh | milwriaethus. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Job Chapter 10, Verse 17 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Epanakainizwn ep' eme thn etasin mou orgh de megalh moi ecrhsw ephgageV de ep' eme peirathria |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Instauras testes tuos contra me et multiplicas iram tuam adversum me et poenae militant in me |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thy indignation upon me; changes and war are against me. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | That you would send new witnesses against me, increasing your wrath against me, and letting loose new armies on me. |
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| Language | Job Chapter 10, Verse 17 |
| Albanian | Ti i përtërin dëshmitarët kundër meje, e shton zemërimin tënd kundër meje dhe trupa gjithnjë të reja më sulmojnë. |
| Cebuano | Imong ginabag-o ang imong mga pagpamatuod batok kanako, Ug ginadugangan mo ang imong kasuko batok kanako: Ang mga kausaban ug kagubatan ania uban kanako. |
| Chinese | 重 立 見 證 " " 我 、 向 我 增 惱 ' ． 如 軍 兵 更 換 著 " " 我 。 |
| Croatian | optužbe nove na mene podižeš, jarošæu veæom na mene usplamtiš i sa svježim se èetama obaraš. |
| Danish | nye Vidner førte du mod mig, øged din Uvilje mod mig, opbød atter en Hær imod mig! |
| Dutch | Gij vernieuwt Uw getuigen tegenover mij, en vermenigvuldigt Uw toorn tegen mij; verwisselingen, ja, een heirleger, zijn tegen mij. |
| Finnish | Sinä hankit yhä uusia todistajia minua vastaan, ja vihasi minuun kasvaa, ja sinä tuot vereksiä joukkoja minun kimppuuni. |
| French | Tu m`opposes de nouveaux témoins, Tu multiplies tes fureurs contre moi, Tu m`assailles d`une succession de calamités. |
| German | Du erneuest deine Zeugen wider mich und machst deines Zornes viel auf mich; es zerplagt mich eins über das andere in Haufen. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Selalu Kauajukan saksi melawan aku; dan semakin besarlah murka-Mu kepadaku. Kaukerahkan pasukan-pasukan baru untuk menyerang dan memerangi aku. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Engkau menaikkan atasku beberapa saksi yang baharu, dan Engkau memperbanyakkan murka-Mu atasku; bahkan, suatu tentara kesukaran mendatangi aku. |
| Italian | su di me rinnovi i tuoi attacchi, contro di me aumenti la tua ira e truppe sempre fresche mi assalgono. |
| Maori | E whakahoutia ana e koe au kaiwhakaatu i oku he, e whakanuia ana hoki e koe tou riri ki ahau; ko nga putanga ketanga ko te whawhai hei pehi i ahau. |
| Norwegian | du vilde føre nye vidner mot mig og øke din harme mot mig, sende alltid nye hærflokker mot mig. |
| Portuguese | Tu renovas contra mim as tuas testemunhas, e multiplicas contra mim a tua ira; reveses e combate estão comigo. |
| Rumanian | Kmi pui knainte noi martori kmpotrivq, Kyi crewte mknia kmpotriva mea, wi mq nqpqdewti cu o droaie de nenorociri. |
| Russian | чЩЧП"ЙЫШ ОПЧЩИ УЧЙ"ЕФЕМЕК фЧПЙИ ТПФЙЧ НЕОС; ХУЙМЙЧБЕЫШ ЗОЕЧ фЧПК ОБ НЕОС; Й 'Е"Щ, П"ОЙ ЪБ "ТХЗЙНЙ, П ПМЮБАФУС ТПФЙЧ НЕОС. |
| Spanish | Traes de nuevo tus testigos contra mí, y aumentas contra mí tu ira con tropas de relevo en mi contra. |
| Swedish | Nya vittnen mot mig skulle du då föra fram och alltmer låta mig känna din förtörnelse; med skaror efter skaror skulle du ansätta mig. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "militant": militantly, militantness, militantnesses, militants. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "militant": nonmilitant, supermilitant, ultramilitant. (additional references) | |
Words containing "militant": nonmilitants. (additional references) | |
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"Militant" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: emilian, Melita, milita, Millamant, Milliband, Millikan, millitant, Milupan, minitant, multinat. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "militant" (pronounced mi"lutunt) |
| 5 | -u t u n t | adjutant, competent, concomitant, impotent, exorbitant, hesitant, incompetent, inhabitant, irritant, omnipotent, penitent. |
| 4 | -t u n t | accountant, assistant, blatant, combatant, consistent, constant, consultant, contestant, important, inadvertent, decongestant, disinfectant, distant, existent, expectant, extant, exultant, inconsistent, insistent, instant, intermittent, latent, mutant, noncombatant, nonexistent, patent, persistent, pollutant, potent, protestant, reluctant, repentant, resistant, resultant, surfactant, unimportant, unrepentant. |
| 3 | -u n t | agent, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, ambient, ambivalent, amendment, amusement, ancient, announcement, annulment, antecedent, antidepressant, antigovernment, antioxidant, apartment, apparent, appeasement, applicant, appointment, apportionment, ardent, argent, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, arrant, arrogant, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accompaniment, accomplishment, abandonment, abatement, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adherent, adjacent, adjournment, adjustment, adolescent, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, afferent, affiant, affluent, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assessment, assignment, assortment, astonishment, astringent, atonement, attachment, attainment, attendant, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, beneficent, benevolent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, bombardment, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, claimant, clairvoyant, Clement, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, coincident, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, complacent, complainant, complaisant, complement, compliant, component, comportment, concealment, concurrent, condiment, confident, confinement, confluent, consequent, consignment, consonant, constituent, containment, contaminant, contentment, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, copayment, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impairment, impatient, impeachment, impediment, impertinent, implement, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, imprudent, incandescent, debarment, debasement, decadent, decedent, decent, declarant, defendant, deferment, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, department, dependent, deployment, deportment, depressant, derailment, descendant, descendent, despondent, detachment, detergent, determent, determinant, deterrent, detriment, development, deviant, different, diligent, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discordant, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, disobedient, dispersant, displacement, dissident, dissonant, divalent, divergent, divestment, docent, dominant, dormant, easement, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, element, elephant, eloquent, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emergent, emigrant, eminent, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrant, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, equivalent, errant, escapement, escarpment, esculent, establishment, estrangement, evanescent, evident, excellent, excitement, excrement, exigent, expectorant, expedient, experiment, exponent, extinguishment, extravagant, exuberant, Fabricant, fervent, figment, filament, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, formant, fragment, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, fulfillment, gallant, garment, garnishment, giant, government, grandiloquent, grandparent, harassment, hydrant, incessant, incident, incipient, incitement, inclement, incoherent, incontinent, inconvenient, increment, incumbent, indecent, independent, indictment, indifferent, indigent, indignant, indolent, inducement, indulgent, inefficient, infant, informant, infotainment, infrequent, infringement, ingredient, inhalant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insolent, insolvent, installment, instrument, insufficient, insurgent, integument, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, internment, intersegment, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, investment, involvement, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, itinerant, jubilant, judgement, judgment, leant, lenient, lieutenant, ligament, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, maltreatment, management, measurement, merchant, micromanagement, migrant, miscreant, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monovalent, monument, mordant, movement, nascent, negligent, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nonresident, nonviolent, nourishment, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, ointment, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, ornament, orpiment, outpatient, outplacement, overconfident, overpayment, overstatement, oxidant, pageant, parchment, parent, parliament, participant, patient, pavement, payment, peasant, penchant, pendant, pennant, percipient, permanent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, pigment, piquant, placement, pleasant, pliant, poignant, postponement, postretirement, preadolescent, precedent, predicament, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prejudgment, prepayment, prescient, present, presentment, prevalent, procurement, proficient, prominent, pronouncement, propellant, proponent, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, punishment, pursuant, puzzlement, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, readjustment, reagent, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recombinant, recruitment, recurrent, redeployment, redevelopment, redundant, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refrigerant, refurbishment, Regent, regiment, registrant, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, relevant, reliant, reminiscent, remnant, repayment, repellent, replacement, replenishment, repugnant, requirement, resentment, resettlement, resident, resilient, resonant, resplendent, respondent, restatement, resurgent, retardant, reticent, retirement, retrenchment, reverent, rodent, rudiment, ruminant, sacrament, salient, seafront, sealant, sediment, segment, semipermanent, sentiment, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, settlement, shipment, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, statement, stimulant, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplement, supplicant, suppressant, talent, tangent, temperament, tenant, tenement, testament, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, tournament, transcendent, transient, translucent, transparent, treatment, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, unpleasant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, vehement, verdant, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant, wonderment. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-i-l-m-n-t-t" | |
-1 letter: intimal. | |
-2 letters: intima, lattin, limina, mattin, titian, titman. | |
-3 letters: animi, atilt, liman, limit, litai, matin, milia, taint, titan. | |
-4 letters: alit, amin, anil, anti, ilia, inia, inti, lain, lati, lima, limn, lint, mail, main, malt, matt, milt, mina, mini, mint, mitt, nail, tail, tain, tali, tilt, tint, titi. | |
-5 letters: ail, aim, ain, ait, alt, ami, ani. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-i-l-m-n-t-t" | |
+1 letter: militants. | |
+2 letters: intimately, limitation, militantly, militating, mutilating, mutilation, ultimating. | |
+3 letters: antielitism, impatiently, limitations, mentalistic, mentalities, multination, mutilations, nonmilitant, stimulating, stimulation, testimonial. | |
+4 letters: alimentation, anthelmintic, antielitisms, antimilitary, delimitation, dilettantism, emotionalist, emotionality, implantation, legitimating, legitimation, limitational, malnutrition, mercantilist, militantness, motivational, multitasking, multivitamin, nonmilitants, simultaneity, stimulations, testimonials, trampolinist. | |
+5 letters: alimentations, amitriptyline, anthelmintics, anticlimactic, antiformalist, antilogarithm, antimetabolic, antiritualism, delimitations, dilettantisms, emotionalists, implantations, intermetallic, interterminal, legitimations, malnutritions, matriculating, matriculation, mercantilists, metafictional, metallization, microtonality, multifilament, multinational, multitaskings, multiterminal, multitracking, multivitamins, mutualization, restimulating, restimulation, supermilitant, terminational, terminatively, trampolinists, ultramilitant, unmitigatedly. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Fiction | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Usage Frequency 11. Expressions 12. Expressions: Internet | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Bible Trace 15. Derivations 16. Rhymes | 17. Anagrams 18. Bibliography |
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