pacific
The word pacific refers to people, actions, and ideas that are peaceful. Pacific actions promote and create peace.
A pacifist is a person who opposes all wars, and that word can help you remember that pacific things are also peaceful. All pacific things are done in a peaceful way or help the cause of peace. Protesting a war is pacific. Signing a peace treaty is pacific. The philosophy of being pacific is called pacifism. Don't confuse pacific with a small "p" with Pacific with a big "P" — as in the Pacific Ocean.
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disposed to peace or of a peaceful nature
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promoting peace“the result of this pacific policy was that no troops were called up”synonyms:
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Vocabulary lists containing pacific
Woodrow Wilson's "Fourteen Points" was an international relations plan, both in specific terms and general philosophical ones. The specific terms involved settling old grudges in Europe, but the general tone is one that demanded absolute transparency in dealings between nations. Wilson's vision is one of freedom with limits and equality among nations, and he refrains from advocating severe punishment for even World War I foe Germany. E-text available here<\a>
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Riding on the success of the Democratic-Republicans in concluding the War of 1812, James Monroe won the presidency with a wide margin of electoral votes (183-34). On March 4, 1817, he was sworn in as the fifth president. Here are some of the words that ushered in the Era of Good Feelings.