militant : Idioms & Phrases


Church militant

  • the Christian church on earth, which is supposed to be engaged in a constant warfare against its enemies, and is thus distinguished from the church triumphant, in heaven.
Webster 1913

malaysia militant group

  • noun a clandestine group of southeast Asian terrorists organized in 1993 and trained by al-Qaeda; supports militant Muslims in Indonesia and the Philippines and has cells in Singapore and Malaysia and Indonesia
    Islamic Community; Jemaah Islamiyah; Islamic Group; Malaysian Mujahidin Group; JI.
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militant tendency

  • noun a Trotskyist political organization in Great Britain set up in 1964 inside the Labour Party
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