Hos*til"i*ty (?), n.;
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.
We
have showed ourselves generous adversaries . . . and
have carried on even our hostilities with humanity.
Atterbury. 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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