What is "bellicosity"

Usage examples of "bellicosity".

He was talking of the Kaiser, whom he had come to like, thanks to Speck, the ever-charming link between the two bellicosities.

It's possible to complicate Pemulis's Mean-Value equation for distribution by factoring in stuff like historical incidences of bellicosity and appeasement, unique characteristics of perceived national interests, etc.

Fitzgerald’s sensibilities in theOdyssey are so much more humane than the rough bellicosity of Mandelbaum’s and Lattimore’s and Fagles’s and even Pope’sIliad .

Also, only the Democratic Party could keep peace in a world made more dangerous by the bellicosity of Theodore Roosevelt.

Of Roosevelt’s bellicosity, Hay had proclaimed, with a straight face, “He and his predecessor have done more in the interest of universal peace than any other two presidents since our government was formed.

The moment a woman finds herself confronted by an antagonist genuinely dangerous, either to her own security or to the well-being of those under her protection--say a child or a husband--she displays a bellicosity which stops at nothing, however outrageous.

Here, as throughout the rambling house, the decor showed an uneasy mixture of luxury and military bellicosity.

The man knew that Old White was afraid of nothing, and he knew the reputation of the mighty cave bear for fearlessness and bellicosity.

Two additional reasons militating against bellicosity and martial aggression during the summer festivals might be mentioned.

One interpreter, one chaplain (against Cleve's wishes), and one volunteer ensign whose sole assignment was to slam both hands together should the Murrin exhibit obvious signs of irrational bellicosity.