Usually means: Hostile action or warfare status.
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  1. belligerency: Merriam-Webster
  2. belligerency: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. belligerency: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. belligerency: Collins English Dictionary
  5. belligerency: Vocabulary.com
  6. belligerency: Wordnik
  7. belligerency: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. belligerency: Wiktionary
  9. belligerency: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. belligerency: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. belligerency: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. belligerency: Dictionary.com
  13. Belligerency: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Belligerency: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. belligerency: Rhymezone
  16. Belligerency: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. belligerency: FreeDictionary.org
  18. belligerency: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. belligerency: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. belligerency: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
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  3. belligerency: Legal dictionary

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  1. belligerency: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Belligerency)

▸ noun:  Alternative form of belligerence [The state of being belligerent; aggressive inclination to war.]

Similar:
hostility, belligerence, belligerent, bellicosity, nonbelligerent, aggression, irredentism, expansionism, acquiescence, unilateralism, more...

Opposite:
peacefulness, pacifism, non-aggression

Types:
hostility, enmity, antagonism, animosity, friction, strife, more...

Adjectives:
non, cuban, american, confederate, southern, active, actual, turkish, full, arab, italian

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Similar:
hostility, belligerence, belligerent, bellicosity, nonbelligerent, aggression, irredentism, expansionism, acquiescence, unilateralism, more...

Opposite:
peacefulness, pacifism, non-aggression

Types:
hostility, enmity, antagonism, animosity, friction, strife, more...

Adjectives:
non, cuban, american, confederate, southern, active, actual, turkish, full, arab, italian



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