Hos‐til″i‐ty (?), n.; pl.Hostilities (#). [L. hostilitas: cf. F. hostilité.] 1. State of being hostile; public or private enemy; unfriendliness; animosity.
Hostility being thus suspended with France. Hayward.
2. An act of an open enemy; a hostile deed; especially in the plural, acts of warfare; attacks of an enemy.
We have showed ourselves generous adversaries... and have carried on even our hostilities with humanity. Atterbury.
He who proceeds to wanton hostility, often provokes an enemy where he might have a friend. Crabb.
Syn. — Animosity; enmity; opposition; violence; aggression; contention; warfare.