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What does hostility mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) The state of being hostile.
  2. (countable) A hostile action, especially a military action. See hostilities for specific plural definition.
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These shouldn't be seen through a prism of diplomatic standards and as metaphors for hostility and war.
The left-arm fast bowler, extracting much lift, bowled with hostility to contain the batsmen.
There is a politically correct hostility against streaming students and against grade acceleration.
She believes women themselves have shown hostility to reversing this trend.
He's legitimating hostility toward judges, however, and portraying the judges as out-of-control power-wielders.
His attempts to redress the financial crisis and restore discipline soon aroused hostility from the guard.

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