The state of treating someone as an enemy. Not just dislike — a cold, hard stance that says 'you are on the other side', which can show as a look, a voice, a refusal, or eventually as gunfire.
From the word’s history
From Latin hostīlitās, from hostīlis 'of an enemy', from hostis 'enemy' (earlier 'stranger'). The modern word is literally 'enemy-ness'.
來自拉丁文 hostīlitās，源頭是 hostis「敵人」（更早的意思是「陌生人」）。所以 hostility 拆開來就是「敵人性」「敵對狀態」。有趣的是 hostis 早期指的是外來的陌生人——跟 hospitable 的 hospes 同源，只是走上了相反的路：一邊把陌生人請進門，一邊把陌生人當敵人。
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原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
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hostilitynoun/hɒsˈtɪlɪti/
- 1
The state of being hostile.
- My resentment and anger towards you caused hostility and a division between us.
- There is no hostilitie so excellent, as that which is absolutely Christian.
- 2
A hostile action, especially a military action. See hostilities for specific plural definition.
- As the revivals died down in the 1740s, the revivalist camp made concessions to their opponents, admonished prorevivalists who continued with the hostilities, and generally sought to heal divisions.
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