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/bəlˈɪdʒərəns/ Listen

noun

Belligerency, Belligerence n.

The quality of being belligerent.

The act or state of being engaged in war or a warlike conflict; warfare.

Synonyms: hostilities.

An aggressively hostile or warlike attitude or nature; a readiness to fight or offend, with little or no provocation.

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Etymology of 'Belligerence'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Belligerence" Quotes from Famous Books

... qualities that seemed almost equally certain. These spacemen apparently lacked belligerence; there had been no sign of hostility through all the years. They were seemingly ...

— The Flying Saucers are Real • Donald Keyhoe

... be it noted that there is in every one a certain discord with regard to war. Every man is divided against himself. On the whole, most of us want peace. But hardly any one is without a lurking belligerence, a lurking admiration for the vivid impacts, the imaginative appeals of war. I am sitting down to write for the peace of the world, but immediately before I sat down to write I was reading the morning's paper, and particularly of the fight between ...

— New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various

... absently, felt a sudden belligerence toward her father. "He ought to have his head punched good and plenty!" ...

— The Long Shadow • B. M. Bower

... of the line but accidentally overheard the tail boy tell the head that he'd lay him out flat if he got into the yard first, a threat that embarrassed a free and expeditious exit:—and all their relations to one another seemed at this time to be arranged on a broad basis of belligerence. But better days were coming, were indeed near at hand, and the children themselves brought them; they only needed to be shown how, but you may well guess that in the early days of what was afterwards to be known as "The Kindergarten Movement on the Pacific Coast," when the Girl and her Kingdom ...

— The Girl and the Kingdom - Learning to Teach • Kate Douglas Wiggin