hostility

[Hos*tilĀ·i*ty]

Hostility is the state of ill will and bad feeling. If a teacher embarrasses you in front of the whole class, you will probably regard him or her with hostility for the remainder of the school year.

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State of being hostile; public or private enemy; unfriendliness; animosity.

Noun
acts of overt warfare; "the outbreak of hostilities"

Noun
violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked

Noun
a hostile (very unfriendly) disposition; "he could not conceal his hostility"

Noun
the feeling of a hostile person; "he could no longer contain his hostility"

Noun
a state of deep-seated ill-will

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n.
State of being hostile; public or private enemy; unfriendliness; animosity.

n.
An act of an open enemy; a hostile deed; especially in the plural, acts of warfare; attacks of an enemy.


Hostility

Hos*til"i*ty , n.; pl. Hostilities . [L. hostilitas: cf. F. hostilit'82.] 1. State of being hostile; public or private enemy; unfriendliness; animosity.
Hostility being thus suspended with France.
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.
He who proceeds to wanton hostility, often provokes an enemy where he might have a friend.
Syn. -- Animosity; enmity; opposition; violence; aggression; contention; warfare.

State of being hostile; public or private enemy; unfriendliness; animosity.

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Usage Examples

It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!

My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved.

For a long time I thought I could deal with my anger and hostility on my own. But I couldn't. I denied that it had affected me, and yet I was so frantic on the inside with other people: I needed to be constantly reassured.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan.

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Other Usage Examples

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.

The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.

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