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Meanings of conscientious objector in English

Portuguese
objetor de consciência
Catalan
objector de consciència

One who refuses to serve in the armed forces on grounds of conscience.

objetor de consciência
Usage of conscientious objector in English
1
Her younger brother was actually a conscientious objector during the Iran War.
The passage
2
The process for becoming a conscientious objector is both involved and tough.
The Guardian
3
He was a conscientious objector during the war, a sex fanatic since-Mr.
Nobody's Man
4
Meanwhile, Tony Gibson was in prison - as an unregistered conscientious objector.
The Irish Times
5
When the World War came he declared himself a conscientious objector.
Blue Ridge Country
6
Kevin Clements grew up in the household of a pacifist and conscientious objector.
Radio NZ
7
By far the easiest grounds for gaining conscientious objector status in wartime are religious.
The god delusion
8
Parliament made a mistake in ever giving a statutory exemption to the conscientious objector.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 4, 1917
9
Howard is the oldest living conscientious objector in the country.
The new yorker
10
The conscientious objector doesn't seem to be having such a soft time after all.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 16, 1917
11
He is a conscientious objector, who isn't about to be drawn into petty squabbles.
The South African
12
And what business has a conscientious objector to be spy-hunting?
This Is the End
13
We now come to that undesirable product of present-day, grandmotherly legislation, the conscientious objector.
The Scientific Monthly, October to December, 1915
14
And you are a conscientious objector, too, are you, Rindle?
Uncle Sam's Boys with Pershing's Troops / Or, Dick Prescott at G...
15
He is a conscientious objector, and had been exempted, providing he work on the land.
The new yorker
16
The nurse is satisfied, the aunt is released, and the conscientious objector is wheeled away.
The Professional Aunt
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