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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.
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We have showed ourselves generous adversaries . .
. and have carried on even our hostilities with
humanity. --Atterbury.
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2. acts of overt warfare.

Syn: belligerency.
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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.
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Hostility being thus suspended with France.
--Hayward.
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2. An act of an open enemy; a hostile deed; especially in the
plural, acts of warfare; attacks of an enemy. See
{hostilities}
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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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