antiwarrior

English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ warrior.

Noun

antiwarrior (plural antiwarriors)

1. One who has antiwar beliefs.
   • 1976 August 9, Richard Reeves, “With Georgia a One-Party State, Can the Nation be Far Behind?”, in New York Magazine, volume 9, number 32, page 79:

     There is only one candidate McCarthy can hurt—the Democrat—and the fairness doctrine/equal-time tradition guarantees that the old antiwarrior will get his message through to distant-drummer marchers.

   • 2020, John Renard, Crossing Confessional Boundaries:

     Saladin's prophetic namesake, by any account as obviously an antiwarrior as one can imagine, seems at first too antithetical a character for comparison with the anti-Crusader par excellence, and therein lies the hagiographical dynamic at work.

   • 2014, Nan Levinson, War Is Not a Game:

     Buoyed by their success, they have decided to take on Kerry, who is particularly irksome to the Smedleys, because several of them knew him back when he was a fellow antiwarrior in Vietnam Veterans Against the War.

   • 2016, T. Wells, Wild Man: The Life and Times of Daniel Ellsberg, page 207:

     And then. . . there was this gradual evolution to passionate antiwarrior.

2. One who is the antithesis of a warrior.
   • 1985, Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, page 109:

     They crossed before the sun and vanished one by one and reappeared again and they were black in the sun and they rode out of that vanished sea like burn phantoms with the legs of the animals kicking up the spume that was not real and they were lost in the sun and lost in the lake and they shimmered and slurred together and separated again and they augmented by planes in lurid avatars and began to coalesce and there began to appear above them in the dawnbroached sky a hellish likeness of their ranks riding huge and inverted and the horses' legs incredibly elongate trampling down the high thin cirrus and the howling antiwarriors pendant from their mounts immense and chimeric and the high wild cries carrying that flat and barren pan like the cries of souls broke through some misweave in the weft of things into the world below.

   • 2009, Matthew Fox, The Hidden Spirituality of Men, page 215:

     Quixote becomes our favorite antihero, antiprophet, antiwarrior, anti-hunter-gatherer—and this is good medicine to keep men healthy.

   • 2018, Hemchand Gossai, Postcolonial Commentary and the Old Testament, page 129:

     While Barak oscillates between an adequate warrior and a week warrior, Sisera is introduced as a capable warrior who oppresses the Israelites with nine hundred chariots of iron and then steeply decines to an antiwarrior status with no opportunity for the rehabilitation of his manhood.

Adjective

antiwarrior (comparative more antiwarrior, superlative most antiwarrior)

1. Opposed to warriors, soldiers and/or others who make a living from combat.
   • 1993, Pat Towell, “The Dellums Agenda”, in Air Force Magazine, volume 76, page 46:

     Mr. Aspin's successor at the House Armed Services Committee says he's antiwar, not antiwarrior.

   • 2007, Robert "Buzz" Patterson, War Crimes: The Left's Campaign to Destroy Our Military and Lose the War on Terror:

     That's the money line from director Sam Mendes's 2005 antiwar, antiwarrior quagmire of a film Jarhead.

   • 2020, Juliana Stone, His Darkest Hunger:

     It was ironic, considering how antiwarrior both his father and brother were.

Translations

one who has antiwar beliefs

• Portuguese: antiguerreiro m