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单词 hostility
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hostilityn.

/hɒˈstɪlɪti/
Etymology: < late Latin hostīlitās, < hostīlis hostile adj. and n.; perhaps through French hostilité (15–16th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter).
1.
a. The state or fact of being hostile; hostile action exercised by one community, state, or power against another; esp. such as involves war.
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society > armed hostility > [noun]
campOE
winOE
armoura1387
battlea1400
cocka1400
poynyec1425
combattery1524
hostility1531
combattencie1586
conflict1611
armed conflict1834
the mind > emotion > hatred > hostility > [noun]
unthankc893
witherwardnessc897
witherOE
wrakea1023
ungrithlOE
feythhed1297
grill13..
ill1303
unfriendshipa1340
enmity?a1400
feuda1400
despitec1400
unkindnessc1400
ingratitude1477
barrace1488
disfriendship1493
hostility1531
dislovea1533
adversation1543
diskindness1596
disaffection1599
ill blood1624
disaffectedness1625
inimicalness1651
unfriendlinessa1684
animus1795
inimicality1797
virus1866
negativism1977
1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xxiv. sig. Miv With outwarde hostilitie or martiall businesse.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. clxxii Ye feare of outward hostilitie, and foren inuasion.
1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 101 Now these private Quarrels were broke out into open Hostility.
1706 E. Gibson Assize Serm. Croydon 15 Open acts of sedition and hostility.
1876 G. D. Mathews Coinages of World ii. 16 Prusias dared the hostility of the Romans by giving a shelter at his Court to Hannibal.
b. plural. Hostile acts; acts of warfare, war.
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1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 837 Howsoever they exercise hostilities, and mutuall disagreements.
1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 488 Declar'd no War..nor committed the least Hostilities.
1781 Ld. Cornwallis Let. Washington 17 Oct. I propose a cessation of hostilities for twenty-four hours.
1855 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Philip II of Spain I. i. viii. 273 A suspension of hostilities was agreed on.
c. hostilities, -y only: used in the Navy to describe a seaman enlisted only for the duration of a war, or such an enlistment.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > seafaring warrior or naval man > [adjective] > sailor for duration of war
hostilities, -y only1942
1917 ‘Taffrail’ Off Shore 81 Even in our small ships we carry some of the ‘hostility men’.]
1942 E. Partridge Dict. Abbrev. 48/2 H.O., Hostilities only; applied to a man that has joined for the duration of the war. (Naval.)
1946 J. Irving Royal Navalese 7 Once again the ‘Hostility Only’ man took his silent stand beside the slender handful of us professional seamen.
1948 Hansard Commons 17 Mar. 2083 Recruiting on a hostilities only engagement was not open in the branch of their choice in the Royal Navy and Royal Marines.
1961 B. Fergusson Watery Maze i. 55 H.O. (‘Hostilities Only’) ratings—men who had joined the Royal Navy for the duration of the war.
1973 Times 31 Jan. 16/7 He enrolled in the Royal Navy as a ‘hostilities only’ rating.
2. transferred and figurative. Opposition or antagonism in action, thought, or principle.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > [noun]
contrariositya1340
adversitya1382
champertyc1386
contrariousness1398
thwartingc1430
contrariancec1450
contrariness?1530
withsitting1532
oppugning1535
opposition1548
oppugnation1563
thwartness1577
adverseness1580
crossing1580
breasting1594
antipathy1601
oppugnancy1609
affrontment1611
opposure1611
thortera1614
contrariancya1617
obstancy1616
oppositeness1619
contropposition1621
obstrigillation1623
opposing1624
hostility1632
opposal1638
crossness1641
affront1642
aversion1651
oppugnance1657
shock1664
opponency1727
counteraction1750
antagonism1797
throwing1816
oppositiveness1824
kick1839
variance1842
opposedness1853
againstness1909
hornet1921
adversariness1970
oppositionality1989
1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 63 There being not betweene us any cause of hostility.
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. at Duellist Explicate all the Phænomena of Nature from the Doctrine of Alkali and Acid, and the supposed Hostility that there is between them.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 400 The hostility excited by a grotesque caricature of virtue did not spare virtue herself.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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