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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
hostilities \hostilities\ n. pl.
1. a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration, during which the international rules of war apply.
Syn: war, state of war, hot war. [WordNet 1.5]
We have showed ourselves generous adversaries . . . and have carried on even our hostilities with humanity. --Atterbury.
2. acts of overt warfare.
Syn: belligerency. [WordNet 1.5]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hostility \Hos*til"i*ty\, noun; pl. {Hostilities}. [L. hostilitas: cf. F. hostilit['e].]
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. See {hostilities}
He who proceeds to wanton hostility, often provokes an enemy where he might have a friend. --Crabb.
Syn: Animosity; enmity; opposition; violence; aggression; contention; warfare.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
27 Moby Thesaurus words for "hostilities": all-out war, appeal to arms, armed combat, armed conflict, attack, battle, belligerence, belligerency, bloodshed, combat, fighting, hot war, la guerre, might of arms, military operations, open hostilities, open war, resort to arms, shooting war, state of war, the sword, total war, war, warfare, warmaking, warring, wartime
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