PACIFICIST, PACIFIST, PHILOPACIST, OR —?
[To TlIE EDITOR OY THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I must say I do not like " paxamist." It is too much like "taximeter "; anyhow, that is how it struck me the moment I saw it. The way to get at the word we want is this. You are a friend to peace and an enemy to war. We have already had " philopacist " submitted, but not the more euphonious eirenophil. The rest surely suggests itself— why not belliphobe, or, if you do not like half-Latin and half- Greek, then polemophobe? The only possible objection I can see is the slight suggestion of cowardice implied. But why all this striving after a short word if the longer be more suggestive? 11 you must have a "mist" try misopolemist
(from polemist). Aspiring neither to fame nor a bust, I an'
Sir, &c., EAAHN.
P.S.—Does not Mr. Norman Angel perhaps deserve the compliment of disillusionist passing into the language in this sense ?
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