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A hostile (very unfriendly) disposition
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hostility
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Word definitions for hostility in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hostility \Hos*til"i*ty\, n.; pl. Hostilities . [L. hostilitas: cf. F. hostilit['e].] State of being hostile; public or private enemy; unfriendliness; animosity. Hostility being thus suspended with France. --Hayward. An act of an open enemy; a hostile ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES excite hatred/hostility ▪ He accused sections of the media of trying to excite racial hatred. provoke hostility ▪ Aggressive behaviour provokes hostility. vehement opposition/criticism/hostility etc ▪ Despite vehement ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Hostility is seen as form of emotionally charged angry behavior. In everyday speech it is more commonly used as a synonym for anger and aggression . It appears in several psychological theories. For instance it is a facet of neuroticism in the NEO PI , ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Middle French hostilité "enmity" (15c.), or directly from Late Latin hostilitatem (nominative hostilitas ) "enmity," from Latin hostilis , from hostis "enemy" (see guest ). Hostilities in the sense of "warfare" attested from 1610s.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a hostile (very unfriendly) disposition; "he could not conceal his hostility" [syn: ill will ] a state of deep-seated ill-will [syn: enmity , antagonism ] the feeling of a hostile person; "he could no longer contain his hostility" [syn: enmity , ill ...
Usage examples of hostility.
Normans and Saracens, abjured all future hostility against the person or dominions of their conqueror.
She knows that she must acquiesce in the ambitious acquisitions of the present Napoleon, or else encounter his hostility.
They lent acrimony to the impending canvass and increased the mutual hostility of those engaged in the exciting controversy.
Even Mari Ado dropped her hostility like a broken toy as it became clear I was peripheral to the real issue.
Ali Ben Souq added quietly, managing with a reasonable voice to lower the hostility rising in Amir Bedawi.
The Mightiest of All Men, the Excellent Ruler of the universe, who had reduced all hostility to nothing, who had won lustrous glory, ascended the golden baldachin resting on the backs of two elephants also covered in golden cloth.
They conducted almost continuous hostilities with the heavily armed German F-lighters163-foot beaching craft similar to the LST and R-boats 85to 115-foot escort vessels.
A fiercely independent people, the Jivaros combine warlike hostility and a boisterous sense of humor.
The world-wide Centenary celebrations crowning these enterprises were undertaken in such perilous circumstances and carried out despite the formidable obstacles engendered through prolongation of hostilities.
The initiatory contest between Lydon and Tetraides being less deadly than that between the other combatants, no sooner had they advanced to the middle of the arena than, as by common consent, the rest held back, to see how that contest should be decided, and wait till fiercer weapons might replace the cestus, ere they themselves commenced hostilities.
State, which forty years before had been admitted to the Union, against sectional resistance to the right guaranteed by the Constitution, and specifically denominated in the treaty for the acquisition of Louisiana, now, because her Governor refused to furnish troops for the unconstitutional purpose of coercing States, became the subject of special hostility and the object of extraordinary efforts for her subjugation.
Our stupid fighting had gotten us into enough trouble, and anyway Dao had broken our mutual hostility.
If hostilities between the Conjoiners and the Coalition reignited, the Demarchy would not be able to stand aside as they had fifteen years ago.
Long after the cessation of hostilities, Dunster and Progmire are at war.
And she maintained her hostility to Dunster long after we had become, in some sort of way, reconciled.