hostility

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The source of this hostility is the basis of Capitalism, which is the separation of the Church and State (religion and politics), the base idea of secularism.

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  1. noun The state of being hostile; antagonism or enmity. See Synonyms at enmity.
  2. noun A hostile act.
  3. noun Acts of war; overt warfare.

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  • His unfailing instinct in such things scents the original soull in everyone, and his hostility is assured to anyone who is not spiritof his spirit. —  Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf: Nation and Race
  • Later I realized that her hostility was the defense of the striking-looking woman who is stared at again and again. —  The Historian
  • I could not answer them in their own language, and they did not understand mine I learned from the servants that all new girls in this house were treated with cold intolerance by the others, but in my case the hostility was an active one. —  MADELEINE: An Autobiography
  • All but two of the men went away, the remaining pair leaning against the opposite wall, frowning at Lew with great intensity, as though their hostility were the only thing they clearly understood. —  Kahawa
  • Among individuals a conspicuous representative of this hostility was the poet Percival. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of James Fenimore Cooper by Thomas R. Lounsbury
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  1. from French hostilité = Provencal hostilitat = Spanish hostilidad = Portuguese hostilidade = Italian ostilità, from Late Latin hostilita(t-)s, enmity, from hostilis, hostile: see hostile.
 

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