War-weariness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A state of exhaustion brought on by fighting in a war. uncountable

    "Bouts of war-weariness now began to grip me from time to time, rather after the fashion of bouts of malaria."

  2. 2
    Weariness of war. uncountable

    "One common imputed cause of this changed attitude toward force in the nineteenth century and the anomalous peace of that century in general is war-weariness."

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"Bouts of war-weariness now began to grip me from time to time, rather after the fashion of bouts of malaria."

Etymology

From war-weary + -ness.

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