HOSTILITIES

hostilities, belligerency

(noun) fighting; acts of overt warfare; “the outbreak of hostilities”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Noun

hostilities

plural of hostility

Acts of war.

Source: Wiktionary

HOSTILITY

Hos*til"i*ty, n.; pl. Hostilities. Etym: [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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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