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hostilities
(encz) | hostilities,nepřátelství pl. |
hostilities
(gcide) | hostilities \hostilities\ n. pl.
1. a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by
official declaration, during which the international rules
of war apply.
Syn: war, state of war, hot war.
[WordNet 1.5]
We have showed ourselves generous adversaries . .
. and have carried on even our hostilities with
humanity. --Atterbury.
[1913 Webster]
2. acts of overt warfare.
Syn: belligerency.
[WordNet 1.5] |
Hostilities
(gcide) | Hostility \Hos*til"i*ty\, n.; pl. Hostilities. [L. hostilitas:
cf. F. hostilit['e].]
1. State of being hostile; public or private enemy;
unfriendliness; animosity.
[1913 Webster]
Hostility being thus suspended with France.
--Hayward.
[1913 Webster]
2. An act of an open enemy; a hostile deed; especially in the
plural, acts of warfare; attacks of an enemy. See
hostilities
[1913 Webster]
He who proceeds to wanton hostility, often provokes
an enemy where he might have a friend. --Crabb.
Syn: Animosity; enmity; opposition; violence; aggression;
contention; warfare.
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hostilities
(wn) | hostilities
n 1: fighting; acts of overt warfare; "the outbreak of
hostilities" [syn: hostilities, belligerency] |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
Hostilities
(gcide) | hostilities \hostilities\ n. pl.
1. a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by
official declaration, during which the international rules
of war apply.
Syn: war, state of war, hot war.
[WordNet 1.5]
We have showed ourselves generous adversaries . .
. and have carried on even our hostilities with
humanity. --Atterbury.
[1913 Webster]
2. acts of overt warfare.
Syn: belligerency.
[WordNet 1.5]Hostility \Hos*til"i*ty\, n.; pl. Hostilities. [L. hostilitas:
cf. F. hostilit['e].]
1. State of being hostile; public or private enemy;
unfriendliness; animosity.
[1913 Webster]
Hostility being thus suspended with France.
--Hayward.
[1913 Webster]
2. An act of an open enemy; a hostile deed; especially in the
plural, acts of warfare; attacks of an enemy. See
hostilities
[1913 Webster]
He who proceeds to wanton hostility, often provokes
an enemy where he might have a friend. --Crabb.
Syn: Animosity; enmity; opposition; violence; aggression;
contention; warfare.
[1913 Webster] |
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