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MILITANCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A militant aggressiveness
Synonyms:
combativeness; militance; militancy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("militance" is a kind of...):
aggressiveness (the quality of being bold and enterprising)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "militance"):
scrappiness (the trait of being scrappy and pugnacious)
Derivation:
militant (showing a fighting disposition)
