Definition of Hostility

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Definition of Hostility
	Hostility State of being hostile; public or private enemy; unfriendliness; animosity. An act of an open enemy; a hostile deed; especially in the plural, acts of warfare; attacks of an enemy. Related Definitions: Act, An, Animosity, Being, Deed, Enemy, Especially, Hostile, In, Of, Open, Or, Plural, Private, Public, State, The, Warfare

Hostility Quotations

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Thomas Jefferson

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
Sigmund Freud

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
Albert Schweitzer

The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.
John Keats

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.
David Foster Wallace

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
Anton Chekhov

Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.
Quentin Crisp

Hostility Translations

hostility in German is Anfeindung {f}, Feindseligkeit, Feindschaft {f}
hostility in Norwegian is fiendtlighet, fiendskap
hostility in Spanish is hostilidad
hostility in Swedish is fientlighet

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