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unmilitary en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + military.

Meanings

1. Not military.
   • The Indian military system is full of unmilitary anomalies, all productive of irresponsibility and undiscipline. 1860, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons, page 72:
   • National Guards and Soldiers of the line […] fall into disorderly street-processions, constitutional unmilitary exclamations and hurrahings. 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
   • Tragedy developed affinities with civic ideals of restraint, manly control, and heroic discipline, but comedy, and in particular the comic body, developed affinities with anticivic excess, sexual abandon, and unmilitary, antiathletic slackness. 2000, Beth Cohen, Not the Classical Ideal:

Forms

Deriveds

unmilitariness · unmilitarily