philopolemic

Adjective

philopolemic (comparative more philopolemic, superlative most philopolemic)

1. (rare) Exalting or supporting conflict or war.
   • [L]et us direct our attention to what Plato and his best interpreter Proclus have transmitted to us concerning Minerva, who as a mundane deity is connected with ether, and has also an allotment in the celestial regions. Plato then in the Timæus describes this Goddess as both a lover of war, and a...1816, Proclus, chapter XXI, in Thomas Taylor, transl., The Six Books of Proclus the Platonic Successor, on the Theology of Plato, Translated from the Greek; […] Two Volumes, volume II, London...
   • [H]e dropped his title, which has since remained in abeyance; all of which was done with such secrecy as would have been successful had he been fighting a less diabolical and philopolemic enemy than the descendants of the deeply-wronged and unforgiving Evangeline.1899, Hanson Penn Diltz, Hollow Bracken: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Dillinghan, →OCLC, page 385

   Synonyms:

   bellicose, belligerent, combative, hawkish, jingoistic, philopolemical, warlike, aggressive, antagonistic, assaultive

   Antonyms:

   dovish, nonbellicose, nonbelligerent, noncombative, pacific, peaceable, uncombative, unjingoistic, unwarlike

2. (rare) Fond of polemics or controversy.
   • But this goddeſs [Minerva], when conſidered as elevating all things, in conjunction with other divinities, to one demiurgus, and ordering and diſpoſing the univerſe together with her father;—according to the former of theſe employments, ſhe is called the philoſophic goddeſs; but, according to the...1793, Plato, “The Cratylus of Plato”, in Thomas Taylor, transl., The Cratylus, Phædo, Parmenides and Timæus of Plato. Translated from the Greek […], London: Printed for Benjamin and John White, […]...
   • When absorption occurs at the close of a poem, the preceding philopolemic posture is suddenly shriven; the surprise, especially in the non-vigilant reader, is the lack of reasonable expectation that there could be such sudden foci that illuminate, the yearning for situations felicificative, after...1994, Walter G. Tonetto, Exiled in Language: The Poetry of Margaret Diesendorf, Walter Billeter, Rudi Krausmann, and Manfred Jurgensen, Bethesda; Dublin; London: Academica Press, published 2001...

   Synonyms:

   philopolemical