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/hɑstˈɪlətiz/ Listen

noun

hostilities n. pl.

A legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration, during which the international rules of war apply.

Synonyms: war, state of war, hot war. "We have showed ourselves generous adversaries... and have carried on even our hostilities with humanity."

Acts of overt warfare.

Synonyms: belligerency.

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Etymology of 'Hostilities'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hostilities" Quotes from Famous Books

... of Mexico, Bustamente, had a view to a cessation of hostilities with Texas. The Texans had sent ambassadors to negotiate a recognition and treaty of alliance and friendship with other nations; they had despatched Hamilton to England to supplicate the cabinet ...

— Monsieur Violet • Frederick Marryat

... before the opening of hostilities, Sohrab, taking the Persian Hujir, whom he still held a prisoner, to the top of a rocky eminence, ordered him to point out the tents of the chief warriors of the Persian army, particularly Rustum's. But Hujir, ...

— Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems • Matthew Arnold

... could be bought off with gingerbread it can be imagined that I was always glad on the days when the pungent odors of cinnamon, ginger, and molasses issued from the cook-stove. It was a surety of peace, of a cessation of hostilities as ...

— Dickey Downy - The Autobiography of a Bird • Virginia Sharpe Patterson

... or Tabnit II., and induced the Phoenicians generally to declare themselves independent. Alliance was at once formed with the Egyptian king, Nekht-nebf, or Nectanebo II., who sent a body of 4,000 Greek mercenaries, under Mentor the Rhodian, to the aid of Tennes.[14335] Hostilities commenced by the Phoenicians expelling or massacring the Persian garrisons, devastating the royal park or paradise, and burning the stores of forage collected for the use of the Persian cavalry.[14336] An attempt made by two satraps—Belesys of Syria and ...

— History of Phoenicia • George Rawlinson

... the popularity of their warlike operations, the difficulties of the ministry soon began to multiply. In consequence of hostilities with the American provinces, the British West India islands experienced a scarcity of the necessaries of life. About the time when the West India fleet was about to set sail, under convoy, on its homeward voyage, it was discovered ...

— Life And Times Of Washington, Volume 2 • John Frederick Schroeder and Benson John Lossing

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