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War's pause button, not its off switch — the fighting stops, the grudge doesn't.
means A formal agreement between opposing sides in a war to stop fighting, usually as a step toward negotiating peace.
from From Latin arma ("arms, weapons") plus sistere ("to make stand still, halt") — the same stistere root that gives English words like "stop" and "persist." So an armistice is literally a "standing still of arms," coined in the 1700s as a formal term for a truce between armies, distinct from the full peace treaty that might (or might not) follow.
- not peace
- legally just an agreement to stop shooting
- wwi example
- 1918 armistice, treaty took 7 more months
- etymology
- latin for weapons standing still
- can expire
- fighting can legally resume if terms break