英和和英

名詞

peacelover (plural peacelovers)

1. An advocate or lover of peace.

   Antonym: warlover

   • 1918, Frank Harris, “The Idiot”, in Pearson's Magazine‎, volume 38, page 290:

     Though we peacelovers are today few in number and weak in influence - mere private persons - yet assuredly we are of the race of those great spiritual adventurers of whom I have spoken above, the greatest of them being He who said: "Blessed are the peacemakers,"

   • 1982, Executive Office of the President, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, Joint Publications Research Service (publisher), Near East/North Africa Report‎, number 2648, page 54:

     Still, they say shamelessly that the Iranians are warmongers and Saddam is a peacelover.

   • 1983, Lance Webb, Making Love Grow, Love that Can Make Incompatibility a Myth, page 129:

     Every one of us is a peacelover. We are not built to enjoy confusion and bitter conflict. We especially long for peace in the home.

   • 2006 June 3, jam...@echeque.com, “Telling time in antiquity”, in rec.arts.sf.composition‎ (Usenet):

     Bush's answer implied: "No, I am good prosocialist peacelover who really likes the Russians."

   • 2013, Paul Livingston, Absent Without Leave, The Private War of Private Stanley Livingston, page 10:

     Jones sums up his philosophy: 'Like the bulk of humanity, I was and am a peacelover — but never a pacifist imagining, in spite of promptings of commonsense, that non-resistance is suitable in all circumstances.