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What does militant mean?

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Adjective
  1. Fighting or disposed to fight; belligerent, warlike. [from 15th c.]
  2. Aggressively supporting of a political or social cause; adamant, combative. [from 17th c.]
Noun
  1. (obsolete) A soldier, a combatant. [17th-19th c.]
  2. An entrenched or aggressive adherent to a particular cause, now especially a member of a particular ideological faction. [from 19th c.]
  3. Specifically, someone who supports the Trotskyite political view expressed in the newspaper Militant, or who engages in aggressive left-wing politics. [from 20th c.]
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