Meaning of BELLIGERENCE
| Pronunciation: | | bu'lijuruns
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- [n] a disposition to fight
- [n] hostile or warlike attitude or nature
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| | Synonyms: | | aggressiveness, belligerency, contentiousness, pugnacity, quarrelsomeness |
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| | See Also: | | disagreeableness, enmity, hostility, ill will, truculence, truculency, warpath | |
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| | Definition: | | \Bel*lig"er*ence\, Belligerency \Bel*lig"er*en*cy\,
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The quality of being belligerent; act or state of making war;
warfare.
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| | Related Terms: | | aggression, aggressiveness, all-out war, antagonism, antipathy, appeal to arms, argumentativeness, armed combat, armed conflict, attack, battle, bellicism, bellicosity, belligerency, bickering, bloodshed, chauvinism, clash, clashing, collision, combat, combativeness, conflict, contention, contentiousness, despitefulness, disputatiousness, dissension, dissent, dissidence, faction, factiousness, ferocity, fierceness, fight, fighting, flak, friction, hate, hatred, hostilities, hostility, hot war, infighting, irascibility, irritability, jingoism, la guerre, litigiousness, malevolence, malice, malignity, martialism, might of arms, militancy, militarism, military operations, open hostilities, open war, partisan spirit, partisanship, pugnaciousness, pugnacity, quarrelsomeness, repugnance, resort to arms, saber rattling, shooting war, shrewishness, spite, spitefulness, state of war, the sword, total war, truculence, unfriendliness, unpeacefulness, war, warfare, warmaking, warmongering, warpath, warring, wartime |
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