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pugnacity|pʌgˈnæsɪtɪ|
[ad. L. pugnācitās, f. pugnāx: see prec. So mod.F. pugnacité (rare).]
The condition or character of being pugnacious; tendency or inclination to fight; quarrelsomeness.
1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. viii. §4, I like better that entrie of truth which commeth peaceably..then that which commeth with pugnacitie and contention. 1613R. Cawdrey Table Alph. (ed. 3), Pugnacitie, striuing, or contending. 1846Grote Greece ii. ii. II. 320 The turbulence and pugnacity of the heroic age. 1880L. Stephen Pope v. 133 Bentley had provoked enemies by his intense pugnacity. |