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Definition of Aggression
1. Noun. A disposition to behave aggressively.
2. Noun. A feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack.
3. Noun. Violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked.
Generic synonyms: Action
Specialized synonyms: Meat Grinder, Force, Violence, Pillage, Pillaging, Plundering
Derivative terms: Aggress, Hostile
4. Noun. The act of initiating hostilities.
5. Noun. Deliberately unfriendly behavior.
Specialized synonyms: Aggravation, Irritation, Provocation, Bitchery, Bullying, Intimidation, Hell Raising, Raising Hell, Self-assertion
Definition of Aggression
1. n. The first attack, or act of hostility; the first act of injury, or first act leading to a war or a controversy; unprovoked attack; assault; as, a war of aggression. "Aggressions of power."
Definition of Aggression
1. Noun. The act of initiating hostilities or invasion. ¹
2. Noun. The practice or habit of launching attacks. ¹
3. Noun. Hostile or destructive behavior or actions. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Aggression
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Aggression
1. A form of behaviour which leads to self-assertion; it may arise from innate drives and/or a response to frustration; may be manifested by destructive and attacking behaviour, by covert attitudes of hostility and obstructionism, or by healthy self-expressive drive to mastery. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aggression
Literary usage of Aggression
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Review (1851)
"Historical and Practical Remarks on the Papal Aggression" (Rivingtons), a very
unsatisfactory tract, calculated to unsettle, rather than confirm, ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reportsby Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1882)
"However hostile, malignant, or even piratical the aggression might be, ...
He thought the aggression was piratical, and that it was an indignity to the ..."
3. The Institutes of Law: A Treatise of the Principles of Jurisprudence as by James Lorimer (1880)
"If aggression then be, as we have seen, one of the objects of natural law, and
if force be indispensable to the attainment of that object, the use of force ..."
4. Natural Rights: A Criticism of Some Political and Ethical Conceptions by David George Ritchie (1903)
"We laugh at the Divine Right of Kings, claimed by Stuarts 1 Did the French
Republic, in 1792, enter on a war of aggression, or of self-defence? ..."
5. The American Journal of International Law by American Society of International Law (1907)
"trading party, and which formally or substantively conflict with the pact, are
to be regarded as treaties of aggression. On comparing these different ..."
6. Treaty of Peace with Germany by Germany (1918- ), Germany (1918- ) Treaties, etc. 1918-, Allied and Associated Powers (1914-1920), United States Congress Senate, Germany, etc. 1918 Treaties, June 28 Treaty with Germany, 1919 (1919)
"The word "aggression" naturally conveys the idea of a wrongful act. ... Would it
not be aggression just the same, only it would be justifiable ..."
7. The Peace Conference at The Hague: And Its Bearings on International Law and by Frederick William Holls (1900)
"Moreover, it would be recreant to its trust if it did not forestall real and
threatening dangers by judicious and energetic aggression.l This duty is not ..."
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