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Belligerent   /bəlˈɪdʒərənt/   Listen
adjective
Belligerent  adj.  
1.
Waging war; carrying on war. "Belligerent powers."
2.
Pertaining, or tending, to war; of or relating to belligerents; as, a belligerent tone; belligerent rights.


noun
Belligerent  n.  A nation or state recognized as carrying on war; a person engaged in warfare.





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"Belligerent" Quotes from Famous Books



... yourself!" I shouted, and released the official in order to seize Kwong. Whereupon the young gentleman pounded Kwong anew. I was unable to hold the hands of both; could seize only one at a time, and my part soon resolved itself into pinioning one belligerent while the other struck him! A silly role, I must say. Impartially holding up first one, then the other, for punishment! At a modest estimate, I should say that one half the population of Peking swarmed out of adjacent ...
— Peking Dust • Ellen N. La Motte
... deserves notice, as giving fair evidence of the respective merits of the belligerent parties. In pursuance of the plan which he had originally devised, Omer Pacha established a permanent fortified camp in Piwa. Twelve battalions under Dervisch Pacha were concentrated at this point; and at the time of the contest which I am about to describe, ...
— Herzegovina - Or, Omer Pacha and the Christian Rebels • George Arbuthnot
... government, and then argued that the United States was a "sovereign power" and entitled to issue such a commission. He pointed out that the sovereignty had been recognized by France and Spain, and that belligerent rights had been recognized by Prussia and by Russia. Only one of Sir Joseph's charges he admitted to be true,—that he was a Scotchman, but he denied the inference made from it,—that he was a "state criminal." He wrote: "It cannot have escaped the attention of ...
— Paul Jones • Hutchins Hapgood
... twice about it," said the belligerent Andy, pushing in between the professor and the Aleuts, as the whole party descended the mountain side toward the place where the oil man ...
— On a Torn-Away World • Roy Rockwood
... but if you intend to go through Canada in this belligerent manner, I think it would be worth your while to take ...
— In the Midst of Alarms • Robert Barr


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