Hos-tĭl'i-ty, n.
n. [Fr. hostilité, Pr. hostilitat, Sp. hostilidad, It. ostilità.]
Sense 1. The state of being hostile; public or private enmity; unfriendliness; animosity.
Hostility being thus suspended with France. Hayward.
Sense 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.
Synonyms—Animosity; enmity; opposition; violence; aggression.