hostility

hostility is a   Noun

Definition:

[1] State of being hostile; public or private enemy; unfriendliness; animosity. Hostility being thus suspended with France. Hayward.

[2] An act of an open enemy; a hostile deed; especially in the plural, acts of warfare; attacks of an enemy. We have showed ourselves generous adversaries . . . and have carried on even our hostilities with humanity. Atterbury. He who proceeds to wanton hostility, often provokes an enemy where he might have a friend. Crabb.

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