militate
/ˈmɪlɪteɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.64 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "to militate in favor of a particular result"
- "Trade sanctions militate against international cooperation."
- "The 8-ft. singles were pre-eminently express engines, and were not satisfactory on secondary duties where frequent stops were called for, which militated against their being retained in service."
- "It has been at least an academic tradition, if no more, that mathematical studies militate against amatory inclinations."
- "There are no missing values for burglary victimization in the data, whereas there are ten missing values for robbery―and as many for physical assault. This fact would militate in favor of using burglary as the independent variable."
- "There are a number of theoretical concerns which might seem to militate against the successful creation of a dictionary of Indian English."
Etymology
First attested in 1598; borrowed from Latin mīlitātus, perfect passive participle from mīlitō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Semantically from its cognate, French militer.