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Definition of Bellicosity
1. Noun. A natural disposition to fight.
Definition of Bellicosity
1. Noun. The characteristic of being bellicose. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bellicosity
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Bellicosity
Literary usage of Bellicosity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anthea: Poems and Translations, the Latter Chiefly from the German Poet by William Stigand, Heinrich Heine (1907)
"... HYMNAL bellicosity I GOD surely is a God of love and ruth, Surely to pray to
Him there is no need Of helm and hauberk, spurs, and battle steed, ..."
2. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"And the main question in it is the question of Belgium. The original cause of
the war was Germany's deliberate and advertised bellicosity, ..."
3. Greatness in Literature: And Other Papers by William Peterfield Trent (1905)
"But surely conceit, ignorance, and bellicosity are things to be avoided by the
attainment of a cosmopolitan outlook upon literature and life. ..."
4. Common Sense about the War by Bernard Shaw (1914)
"The original cause of the war was Germany's deliberate and advertised bellicosity,
and it might be thought that the first aim of peace would be by some ..."
5. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1916)
"With his thoroughly Spanish character, which bears the masculine traits of
bellicosity, fanaticism, intolerance, love of liberty, or, rather, impatience of ..."
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