Crossword clues for combativeness
combativeness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Combativeness \Com"bat*ive*ness\, n.
The quality of being combative; propensity to contend or to quarrel.
(Phren.) A cranial development supposed to indicate a combative disposition. [1913 Webster] ||
Wiktionary
n. the state of being combative
WordNet
Usage examples of "combativeness".
Banichi and Jago to know the situation as fully as possible, predigested for atevi comprehension: he did what he could to make it understood in shorthand, and he gave a second, reflexive bow of respect to a man of pragmatic combativeness and considerable virtue.
Such are the functions of Acquisitiveness, Secretiveness, Selfishness, and Combativeness, as well as the Generative powers.
By taking away what the phrenologists call combativeness, we could doubtless stop prize-fight, but we might have a springless society.
Here was this Mr. Gridley, a man of a robust will and surprising energy--intellectually speaking, a sort of inharmonious blacksmith--and he could easily imagine that there Gridley was, years ago, wandering about in life for something to expend his superfluous combativeness upon--a sort of Young Love among the thorns--when the Court of Chancery came in his way and accommodated him with the exact thing he wanted.
The right moods, the right appetites, the right irrationalities, the right sort of combativeness.