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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

bellum

war +

gerens

-entis

, waging,

pr.

gerere

to wage: cf. F.

belligérant

. See

Waging war; carrying on war.

“Belligerent powers.”

E. Everett.

Pertaining, or tending, to war; of or relating to belligerents;

as, a

belligerent

tone;

belligerent

rights

Noun.

A nation or state recognized as carrying on war; a person engaged in warfare.

Adj.

[L. belliger, warlike; belligero, to wage war; from bellum, war, and gero, to wage; part. gerens, gerentis, waging. Gr. war.]

Waging war; carrying on war; as a belligerent nation.

Noun.

A nation, power or state carrying on war.