A pacifist was a person who believes in pacifism or is opposed to war or to violence of any kind. a person whose personal belief in pacifism causes him or her to refuse being drafted into military service. Almost all people who are pacifist such as Quakers are so exclusively because of their religious views. And patroon was in the United States, a patroon was a landholder with manorial rights to large tracts of land in the 17th century Dutch colony of New Netherland in North America.
