Meanings
nounbelligerency (usually uncountable, plural belligerencies)
plural belligerencies
- alternativeuncountableusuallyAlternative form of belligerence.
Scott was a little unsteady now and he looked at people out of the side of his eyes with a certain belligerency.
1964, Ernest Hemingway, “Scott Fitzgerald”, in A Moveable Feast, New York: Scribner, page 173
Synonyms & antonyms
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