peacespeak

English

Etymology

peace +‎ -speak

Noun

peacespeak (uncountable)

  1. The jargon of pacifism and anti-war discourse.
    • 1987, Leonard I. Sweet, The Lion's Pride: America and the Peaceable Community, Abingdon Press, →ISBN, page 38:
      […] the chief purpose of our armed forces would be not to "win wars" but to "avert wars," our leaders would be talking to us in "peacespeak," not "nukespeak," […]
    • 1989 April, David Lyon, “Against The Stream”, in Third Way, volume 12, number 4, page 17:
      At the same time, we must not be uncritical of 'peacespeak' which sometimes glosses over the stark realities of painful choices in a fallen world.
    • 2001, Eamon Delaney, The Accidental Diplomat: My Years in the Irish Foreign Service, 1987-1995, New Island, →ISBN, page 336:
      But love-bombing, the Unionists couldn't handle. The long arm of 'friendship' is much more insidious. Irish nationalism takes many forms and peacespeak is just one of them.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:peacespeak.

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