0 a way of thinking or behaving that shows that you have no hope and expect to fail:
1 a way of thinking or behaving that shows that you expect to fail:
He criticized his party for defeatism.
If this sounds like pre-modern defeatism, it also indicates a way forward to the modern sublime in which astonishment forces a recoil to rational analysis.
The hierarchy was prepared to lighten this canonical obligation in terms of external observances, but to forego it entirely would have smacked of defeatism.
It was proof of defeatism, they said; it would demoralize the troops and perhaps even lead to disaster on the field of battle.
The result, as you will have guessed by now, was that people generally behaved not with panic and defeatism but with 'a high degree of popular resilience, endurance and resolution'.
It is the fundamental defeatism of the party opposite that distresses me.
The one carries with it just a suspicion of defeatism; the other a commendable degree of optimism.
It is they and such as they who give a quite false impression to the foreign observer that this is a city stinking of defeatism.
We have passed away from the deplorable era of defeatism, decadence and depression of the immediate post-war era after the last war.
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