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Definition of Belligerency

1. Noun. Hostile or warlike attitude or nature.

2. Noun. Fighting; acts of overt warfare. "The outbreak of hostilities"

Definition of Belligerency

1. Noun. the state of being at war or in an armed conflict ¹

2. Noun. hostile or aggressive behaviour ¹

3. Noun. the willingness to fight; belligerence ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Belligerency

1. [n -CIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Belligerency

bellicoseness bellicosities bellicosity bellicous bellidoite bellied bellied up bellies bellies of digastric muscle bellies of omohyoid muscle

bellies of the beasts bellies up belligerence belligerences belligerencies belligerency (current term) belligerent belligerently belligerents belling

belling the cat bellingerite bellings bellipotence bellipotent belllike bellmaker bellmakers bellmaking bellman

Literary usage of Belligerency

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Handbook of International Law by George Grafton Wilson (1910)
"RECOGNITION OF belligerency. 17. (a) Recognition of the belligerency of a revolting community by a foreign state is an act of the political department of ..."

2. Elements of International Law by Henry Wheaton (1904)
"belligerency. When a rebellion has assumed such proportions that it may, ... (y) By a recognition of belligerency the neutral accepts and recognises within ..."

3. The Elements of International Law: With an Account of Its Origin, Sources by George Breckenridge Davis, Gordon Edward Sherman (1915)
"The question of according or withholding rights of belligerency in ... As to what conditions must be fulfilled to warrant such recognition of belligerency, ..."

4. A Manual of Public International Law by Thomas Alfred Walker (1895)
"Effect of recognition of belligerency. i Wharton Dig. 519. With states may be classed communities to which has been granted recognition of belligerency. ..."

5. International Cases: Arbitrations and Incidents Illustrative of by Henry Fraser Munro, Ellery C. Stowell (1916)
"RECOGNITION OF belligerency THE RECOGNITION OF CONFEDERATE belligerency (1861) IN recognizing the belligerency of parties to a civil war within a state, ..."

6. A Treatise on International Public Law by Hannis Taylor (1901)
"belligerency of Southern Confederacy recognized.— Probably the most famous recognition of belligerency ..."

7. The Institutes of the Law of Nations: A Treatise of the Jural Relations of by James Lorimer (1884)
"Where the lives of his men, or their health and consequent efficiency are in question, there is no expenditure of the other means which belligerency places ..."

8. International Law Chiefly as Interpreted and Applied by the United States by Charles Cheney Hyde (1922)
""The act of recognition usually, takes the form of a solemn proclamation of neutrality which recites the de facto condition of belligerency as its motive. ..."

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