warweariness

English

Noun

warweariness (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of war-weariness
    • 1987, Richard N. Rosecrance, The Rise of the Trading State: Commerce and Conquest in the Modern World, →ISBN, page 87:
      The European Concert of Powers leagued together to cooperate while warweariness and the common fear of revolution remained to worry conservative states.
    • 2013, John Dos Passos, Mr. Wilson's War, →ISBN:
      In the business world certain tolerances and understandings had grown up between enemy states despite the daily massacre on the front lines. Warweariness was the prevailing mood.
    • 2013 September 13, Sebastian Junger, “A Syria strike in the name of peace”, in Washington Post:
      Iraq hangs heavy over the American psyche and contributes to the war­weariness, but the 2003 invasion was not an intervention to stop an ongoing conflict.
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