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Definition of Hostilities
1. Noun. Fighting; acts of overt warfare. "The outbreak of hostilities"
Generic synonyms: Armed Combat, Combat
Derivative terms: Belligerent, Hostile
Definition of Hostilities
1. Noun. (plural of hostility) ¹
2. Noun. acts of war ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hostilities
1. hostility [n] - See also: hostility
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hostilities
Literary usage of Hostilities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1921)
"The duty of impartiality incumbent upon aH neutral must obviously prevent him
from committing ^ y hostilities against either belligerent. ..."
2. Elements of International Law by Henry Wheaton (1904)
"Part IV. peculiarly applicable to conventions for the suspension of hostilities.
The first of these peculiar rules, as laid down by Vattel, ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"The hostilities of the barbarians provoked the resentment of that philosophic
monarch, and, in the prosecution of a just defence, Marcus and his generals ..."
4. The American Journal of International Law by American Society of International Law (1908)
"... ARTICLE I. The contracting powers agree that hostilities between them should
not begin without a previous unequivocal notice, which shall be either in ..."
5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1892)
"... and \\ Ml was again in Edinburgh in March, when James promised to abstain from
hostilities for the present, but would write no letter which would ' lose ..."
6. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1909)
"In November, 1775, Grafton, who had hoped against hope that hostilities might be
averted, resigned, and was succeeded as Lord Privy Seal by Dartmouth, ..."
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