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French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French hostilité (attested from 1353), borrowed from Latin hostilitātem.
Pronunciation
Noun
hostilité f (plural hostilités)
- hostility
1968 April 18, “La réconciliation Cambodge-États-Unis”, in Le Monde:Elle avait été provoquée directement par les violations de la frontière cambodgienne par les troupes américaines et sud-vietnamiennes, et, en remontant plus loin, par l’incompréhension et l’hostilité des Américains envers le régime neutraliste et socialisant du prince.- It had been directly provoked by violations of the Cambodian border by American and South Vietnamese troops, and, going back further, by the Americans' incomprehension and hostility towards the prince's neutral, socialist-sympathizing government.
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