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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

... and motionless; and his shock and grief acted as a quietus on the older man's belligerency. "Forgive me, Boy. This isn't any time to haul you over the coals. It seems it isn't any itch for a title in Edna's case. The fellow hasn't any handle to his name, and he has money—or pretends to have. Sylvia ...

— The Opened Shutters • Clara Louise Burnham

... sufficient provocation for him to break one of the rules that had governed him until now. Hamlin might be goaded, or frightened, into using the rifle, but Lawler had no intention of goading or frightening him. In fact, being aware of the reason for Hamlin's belligerence, he had no intention of acquainting the man with the knowledge of what had happened the night before. At least, ...

— The Trail Horde • Charles Alden Seltzer

... these simple, every-day Buchers was most pointed. Their lines were furthest from the military. Teaching diction and phonetics to women and male singers, studying engineering, religion and the gentle arts, had nothing to do with such proposed bloody belligerence. ...

— Villa Elsa - A Story of German Family Life • Stuart Henry

... soldiers, a shooting not very different in spirit—but how different in results!—from the prehistoric warfare of catapult and garter. "But suppose," said his antagonists; "suppose somehow one could move the men!" and therewith opened a new world of belligerence. ...

— Little Wars; a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books • H. G. Wells

Words linked to "Belligerency" : hostilities, armed combat, combat, hostility, enmity, belligerent