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Webster 1913 Edition
Hostility
Hos-til′i-ty
,Noun.
pl.
Hostilities
(#)
. [L.
hostilitas
: cf. F. hostilité
.] 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. See
hostilities
Syn. – Animosity; enmity; opposition; violence; aggression; contention; warfare.
Webster 1828 Edition
Hostility
HOSTIL'ITY
,Noun.
1.
The state of war between nations or states; the actions of an open enemy; aggression; attacks of an enemy. These secret enmities broke out in hostilities. Hostility being thus suspended with France.
We have carried on even our hostilities with humanity.
2.
Private enmity; a sense less proper.