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Definition of State of war
1. Noun. A legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply. "War was declared in November but actual fighting did not begin until the following spring"
Category relationships: War, Warfare
Generic synonyms: Antagonism, Enmity, Hostility
Specialized synonyms: Proxy War
Antonyms: Peace
Derivative terms: War
Lexicographical Neighbors of State Of War
Literary usage of State of war
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The usual manner of notifying neutrals of the existence of a state of war is by
public proclamation and the most common method employed by outside states to ..."
2. Two Treatises of Government by John Locke (1824)
"THE state of war is a state of enmity and destruction : and therefore declaring
by word or action, not a passionate and hasty, but a sedate settled design ..."
3. Thirty Years' View: Or, A History of the Working of the American Government by Thomas Hart Benton (1858)
"Was there » state of war on the 13th of June, 1798. when Congress passed the
first non-intercourse act ; and did Congress, in a state of public war, ..."
4. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent (1826)
"OF THE DECLARATION, AND OTHER EARLY MEASURES OF A state of war. IN the last
Lecture, we considered the principal rights and duties of nations in a state of ..."
5. International Law Chiefly as Interpreted and Applied by the United States by Charles Cheney Hyde (1922)
"The State of War. It always lies within the power of a State to endeavor to obtain
redress for wrongs, or to gain political or other advantages over another ..."
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