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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Hostility

Hos·til′i·ty (hŏs·tĭl′ĭ·ty̆), 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.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty. Of the others, 1,362 (a word or a single letter each) were inferred by AI from the context by the dictionary’s own rules and are marked with a wavy underline (tap or point at one to see the note); the rest, which could not be inferred with confidence, are left as “?”.