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Militarism
- noun - a political orientation of a people or a government to maintain a strong military force and to be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests
Militarist
- noun - a person who advocates war or warlike policies
Militarize
- verb - adopt for military use; "militarize the Civil Service"
- lend a military character to (a country), as by building up a military force; "militarize Germany again after the war"
Militating
- verb - have force or influence; bring about an effect or change; "Politeness militated against this opinion being expressed"
Minimalism
- noun - an art movement in sculpture and painting that began in the 1950s and emphasized extreme simplification of form and color
Minimalist
- adjective - a conservative who advocates only minor reforms in government or politics
- a practitioner or advocate of artistic minimalism
- advocating minimal reforms (as in government or politics)
- of or relating to artistic minimalism
Mitigating
- verb - lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of; "The circumstances extenuate the crime"
- make less severe or harsh; "mitigating circumstances"
Mitigation
- noun - a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances
- the action of lessening in severity or intensity; "the object being control or moderation of economic depressions"
- to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious
Mitigative
- adjective - moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear
Motivating
- verb - give an incentive for action; "This moved me to sacrifice my career"
- impelling to action; "it may well be that ethical language has primarily a motivative function"- Arthur Pap; "motive pleas"; "motivating arguments"
- the act of motivating; providing incentive