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1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 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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