Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Hostility

Hostility , noun

[Latin hostilitas: compare French hostilité.]

1.
State of being hostile; public or private enemy; unfriendliness; animosity.
Hostility being thus suspended with France. — Hayward
2.
An act of an open enemy; a hostile deed; especially in the plural, acts of warfare; attacks of an enemy. See hostilities
He who proceeds to wanton hostility, often provokes an enemy where he might have a friend. — Crabb