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belligerati en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of belligerent + literati which is also the plural of belligerātus.

Meanings

  1. (plural, plural-only) Literary people, authors — literati — who promote wars of aggression.
    • I am not, in this instance, referring to the belligerati - Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis and chums - ever-present in the liberal press on both sides of the Atlantic. 2005, Tariq Ali, Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography Of The Sixties, page 19:
    • They are the belligerati who are given opinion columns and radio talkback programs; who are accorded the status of minor celebrities; and there can at times seem no end to the uniquely Australian cross of their public bullying 2011, Andrew Charlton, Man-Made World, page 88:
    • Since neoconservatives and the liberal belligerati have sought to appropriate these ideological resources on behalf of imperialism, aspects of this question will be examined in chapter 1. 2011, Richard Seymour, American Insurgents: A Brief History of American Anti-Imperialism, page xviii: