Hypertext Webster Gateway: "hostility"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hostility \Hos*til"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Hostilities}. [L. hostilitas:
cf. F. hostilit['e].]
1. State of being hostile; public or private enemy;
unfriendliness; animosity.
Hostility being thus suspended with France.
--Hayward.
2. An act of an open enemy; a hostile deed; especially in the
plural, acts of warfare; attacks of an enemy.
We have showed ourselves generous adversaries . . .
and have carried on even our hostilities with
humanity. --Atterbury.
He who proceeds to wanton hostility, often provokes
an enemy where he might have a friend. --Crabb.
Syn: Animosity; enmity; opposition; violence; aggression;
contention; warfare.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
hostility
n 1: a hostile (very unfriendly) disposition; "he could not
conceal his hostility" [syn: {ill will}]
2: a state of deep-seated ill-will [syn: {enmity}, {antagonism}]
3: the feeling of a hostile person; "he could no longer contain
his hostility" [syn: {enmity}, {ill will}]
4: violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked [syn:
{aggression}]
5: acts of overt warfare; "the outbreak of hostilities" [syn: {belligerency}]
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