warmonger

• war-monger
• war monger

war +‎ monger

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈwɔː.mʌŋ.ɡə(ɹ)/

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warmonger (plural warmongers)

1. (derogatory) Someone who advocates war; a militarist.

   Synonyms: bellicist, hawk, jingoist, war hawk

   • 1952 September 22, “Since Stevenson Prefers 'Compromise', Foreign Policy Is Squarely in the Campaign”, in LIFE, volume 33, number 12, Time Inc., →ISSN, page 30:

     Wham! Overnight he [Dwight D. Eisenhower] became a warmonger.

2. A mercenary soldier.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 550:

     With that, out of his bouget forth he drew
     Great ſtore of treaſure, therewith him to tempt;
     But he on it lookt ſcornefully askew,
     As much diſdeigning to be ſo miſdempt,
     Or a war-monger to be baſely nempt;

• warmongery

• monger (and its other derived terms)
• war profiteer

• merchant of death

warmonger (third-person singular simple present warmongers, present participle warmongering, simple past and past participle warmongered)

1. (derogatory, intransitive) To advocate war.
   • 2002, Robert Colls, Identity of England‎:

     Harmsworth's Daily Mail had warmongered for over twenty years.