militancy
English
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[edit]militancy (usually uncountable, plural militancies)
- The quality of being militant.
- 2016 February 5, Aly Tamboura and Kevin D. Sawyer, “Black Panthers' militancy now adopted by the radical right”, in San Francisco Chronicle[1], archived from the original on 12 June 2021:
- While pragmatists in the party toiled in the community to make improvements, charismatic leaders, such as former San Quentin State Prison prisoner and “Soul on Ice” author Eldridge Cleaver, set out on a course of militancy. There were several armed and violent confrontations with police. In the first few years, Panthers as well as law enforcement officers were killed or injured in clashes.
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[edit]quality of being militant
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