war-weary

Adjective

war-weary (comparative war-wearier or more war-weary, superlative war-weariest or most war-weary)

1. Weary or tired of war.
   • Read the language in which the poet of the war-weary Roman world salutes the Augustan empire. [...] The place which Virgil held in the estimation of pious Churchmen though the mediæval period, in which pagan and devilish were almost convertible terms, is mainly due to the almost prophetic character...1873 July, J. Baldwin Brown, “The Whole Armour of God”, in [Robert William Dale], editor, The Congregationalist, volume II, London: Hodder and Stoughton, […], →OCLC, page 393
   • [T]he three Great Powers should not hesitate to take whatever steps may be necessary to bring about a settlement. They may be war-weary, but they are not too war-weary for that, now that they are united in purpose.1922 April 6, “Paris and the Near East”, in The Near East, volume XXI, number 569, London: Printed by the Guilbert-Wenham Printing Co., →OCLC, page 460, column 2
2. Tired from fighting in a war.
   • And whiles the honourable Captaine there / Drops bloody ſwet from his warre-wearied limbes, / And in aduantage lingring lookes for reſcue, / You his falſe hopes, the truſt of Englands honor, / Keepe off aloofe with worthleſſe emulation: [...][1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
   • Sunk in silence and sleep in the cottager's bed, / Oblivion shall visit the war-weary head; / Perchance he may dream, but the vision shall tell, / Of his lady-love's bower and her latest farewell; [...]1851, M. Kelly, “Rest, Warrior, Rest”, in Gems from the Operas: A Choice Collection of the Most Admired Songs, Duets, Glees, Choruses, &c. &c. […] With All the New Songs, Philadelphia, Pa.: John B....