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Meaning of "militance" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MILITANCE

ˈmɪlɪtəns


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MILITANCE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Militance is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MILITANCE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Militant

Militant is usually used to describe a person engaged in aggressive verbal or physical combat. Militant may also refer to: ▪ The Militant, an international communist newsweekly first published in November 1928 ▪ Militant faction, an organized radical grouping in the Socialist Party of America during the 1930s ▪ Militant Group, a British Trotskyist group of the 1930s ▪ Militant tendency, or Militant, a British Trotskyist group which followed entryist tactics within the British Labour Party until the early 1990s...

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MILITANCE

acquittance · admittance · appetence · capacitance · competence · concomitance · emittance · hesitance · immunocompetence · impenitence · incompetence · inheritance · intermittence · laitance · latence · penitence · pittance · quittance · remittance · transmittance

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MILITANCE

milieux · militancy · militant · Militant Tendency · militantly · militantness · militaria · militaries · militarily · militarisation · militarise · militarism · militarist · militaristic · militaristically · militarization · militarize · military · military academy · military band

WORDS THAT END LIKE MILITANCE

acceptance · acquaintance · advance · amount of substance · assistance · circumstance · Constance · court of first instance · distance · for instance · importance · instance · long-distance · reluctance · repentance · resistance · stance · substance · the distance · the Resistance · walking distance

Synonyms and antonyms of militance in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «militance» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MILITANCE

Find out the translation of militance to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of militance from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «militance» in English.
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Translator English - Chinese

militance
1,325 millions of speakers
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militancia
570 millions of speakers
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English

militance
510 millions of speakers
hi

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militance
380 millions of speakers
ar

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militance
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

воинственности
278 millions of speakers
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militância
270 millions of speakers
bn

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militance
260 millions of speakers
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militance
220 millions of speakers
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Militan
190 millions of speakers
de

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Militanz
180 millions of speakers
ja

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militance
130 millions of speakers
ko

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militance
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Javanese

Militansi
85 millions of speakers
vi

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militance
80 millions of speakers
ta

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militance
75 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Marathi

सैन्यदला
75 millions of speakers
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militanlık
70 millions of speakers
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militanza
65 millions of speakers
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militance
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

войовничості
40 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Romanian

Militantismul
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μαχητικότητα
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

militance
14 millions of speakers
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militance
10 millions of speakers
no

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militance
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of militance

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MILITANCE»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of militance
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about militance

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MILITANCE»

Discover the use of militance in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to militance and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Fundamentalisms and the State: Remaking Polities, Economies, ...
This third volume of the Fundamentalism Project provides a systematic overview of the advances made by antisecular religious movements over the past twenty-five years.
Martin E. Marty, R. Scott Appleby, 1996
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Manufacturing Militance: Workers' Movements in Brazil and ...
Workers' Movements in Brazil and South Africa, 1970-1985 Gay W. Seidman. During South Africa's industrial expansion, as jobs opened up in manufacturing and commerce, women provided a source of relatively cheap labor: until 1981, ...
Gay W. Seidman, 1994
3
Machinists' Monthly Journal
It has been said that eternal vigilance is the price of liberty — let me add that " continual militance is the cost of progress." When animals reach that state in their lives when they lose their masculine militance they enter the decadent stage of ...
‎1915
4
Fire this Time: The Watts Uprising and the 1960s
In an atmosphere in LA where the Red Scare had stifled the process of Euro- Americans flocking militandy to the civil rights banner, black militance increasingly took on anti- white characteristics. This was facilitated by the fact that most of those ...
Gerald Horne, 1997
5
The Gender of Breadwinners: Women, Men, and Change in Two ...
Chapter. Five. Womanly. militance,. neighbourly. wrath. On 18 January 1949 the members of local 153 of the United Textile Workers of America - AFL, certified the previous autumn as the bargaining agent for the Paris employees of Penmans ...
Joy Parr, 1990
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Movements, Militance, and Mass Mediated Fear of Crime: A ...
Examines historically public opinion about capital punishment during the 1960s.
Suyash X. Agrawal, 1999
7
Visible Women: New Essays on American Activism
Taking. the. Law. into. Our. Own. Hands: Bradwell,. Minor,. and. Suffrage. Militance. in. the. 1870s. Ellen Carol DuBois Among the most contested elements of the Constitution have been the Reconstruction amendments, and a crucial aspect of ...
Nancy A. Hewitt, Suzanne Lebsock, 1993
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Organized Labor and American Politics, 1894-1994: The ...
But now scholars stress the militance of many groups of workers, both organized and unorganized, a militance fed by home-grown ideologies of class consciousness, most notably artisan republicanism. And they trace that militance, in large ...
Kevin Boyle, 1998
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From Colony to Nation: Women Activists and the Gendering of ...
And their militance undoubtedly shaped the deeply gendered local reforms of the late 1930s that aimed to incorporate popular demands for economic and social change, thus containing the movement and patching up colonial authority.
Anne S. Macpherson, 2007
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Passionate Politics: Emotions and Social Movements
The shift towards militance was not a linear progression. That is, there was not a singular, steady movement away from moderation and towards oppositional rhetoric and tactics. To the contrary, the period immediately prior to the emergence of ...
Jeff Goodwin, James M. Jasper, Francesca Polletta, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MILITANCE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term militance is used in the context of the following news items.
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If Len McCluskey wants illegal strikes he'd best be ready to go to jail …
Unite's newfound militance has seen it changing internal rules by scrapping a clause requiring union members to abide by the law. This is an ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
2
Mark Henry Interview: Legacy, NOD in 2015, Fake Retirement …
But it's a different time, and the militance and the collective thought process on people wanting to turn things because of color is always gonna ... «WrestlingNewsSource.com, Jun 15»
3
Henry on If NOD Would Work Now, Retirement and His Legacy, More
But it's a different time, and the militance and the collective thought process on people wanting to turn things because of color is always gonna ... «TWNP-Wrestling News, Jun 15»
4
Humourless and overwrought response from breastfeeding lobby
Such militance has been overtly illustrated by the New Zealand Breastfeeding Authority (NZBA). No, this is not a government agency, just a very ... «Stuff.co.nz, Jun 15»
5
200 million women 'missing'
The maverick scholar Gunnar Heinsohn claims that in the Middle East today, a 'male youth bulge' fuels Islamic militance.” Live Action News ... «WND.com, Jun 15»
6
Everything's Awesome and Camille Paglia Is Unhappy!
To me, it was a badge of militance. And I was the only person doing a dissertation on a sexual topic. It's hard to believe this now. reason: What ... «Reason, May 15»
7
Peaceful protest held following DA announcement
I believe it needs to be addressed peacefully I believe it needs to be addressed with militance. Madison right now is addressing it peacefully ... «WMTV, May 15»
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For Toronto Can Factory Workers, a Tellingly Long Strike
A local labour expert echoes the concerns of these critics about diminished militance in the Canadian union movement. "Unions are going on ... «TheTyee.ca, May 15»
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Baltimore rioters weren't protesting, they were committing violent …
Still more radically, Hart endorses violence, or “militance,” as he prefers to call it, as the appropriate response to oppression. “Militance,” he ... «Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel, May 15»
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The paradox of 'black power'
Quoting from his article, “Militance is about direct action which defends our communities from violence. It is about responses which meet the ... «American Thinker, Apr 15»
REFERENCE
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