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noun

Belligerency, Belligerence n.

The quality of being belligerent.

The act or state of being engaged in war or a warlike conflict; warfare.

Synonyms: hostilities.

An aggressively hostile or warlike attitude or nature; a readiness to fight or offend, with little or no provocation.

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Etymology of 'Belligerency'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Belligerency" Quotes from Famous Books

... desperately argued O'Reilly. "Marti raised more than a million dollars, and every Cuban cigar-maker in the United States gives a part of his wages every week to the cause. The best blood of Cuba is in the fight. The rebels are poorly armed, but if our Government recognizes their belligerency they'll soon fix that. Spain is about busted; ...

— Rainbow's End • Rex Beach

... yet filled with an extraordinary penetration and prescience. They were the eyes of an experienced woman of thirty fixed in the face of a child. What else the Colonel saw there Heaven only knows! He felt his inmost secrets plucked from him—his whole soul laid bare—his vanity, belligerency, gallantry—even his mediaeval chivalry, penetrated, and yet illuminated, in that single glance. And when the eyelids fell again, he felt that a greater part of himself had been swallowed up ...

— Openings in the Old Trail • Bret Harte

... that he'd lay him out flat if he got into the yard first, a threat that embarrassed a free and expeditious exit:—and all their relations to one another seemed at this time to be arranged on a broad basis of belligerence. But better days were coming, were indeed near at hand, and the children themselves brought them; they only needed to be shown how, but you may well guess that in the early days of what was afterwards to be known as "The Kindergarten Movement on the Pacific Coast," when the Girl and her Kingdom first ...

— The Girl and the Kingdom - Learning to Teach • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... furnished but clean. Then the girl led the way in, motioned Ruth to a chair near a rough-topped table, and stood over beside a cast-iron stove, her hands hanging at her sides, the fingers crumpling the cloth of the ragged apron. Her belligerence had departed; she seemed now to be beginning to realize that this visit was really meant to honor her, and she grew conscious of her rags, of the visible signs of poverty, of the visitor's raiment, gorgeous in comparison ...

— The Range Boss • Charles Alden Seltzer

... stony stare of belligerence and Philon clamped his jaw. The boy dropped his glance and gave a reluctant ...

— The House from Nowhere • Arthur G. Stangland

Words linked to "Belligerency" : enmity, belligerence, combat, hostility, hostilities, belligerent, warpath, ill will