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Belligerent   /bəlˈɪdʒərənt/   Listen
adjective
Belligerent  adj.  
1.
Waging war; carrying on war. "Belligerent powers."
2.
Pertaining, or tending, to war; of or relating to belligerents; as, a belligerent tone; belligerent rights.


noun
Belligerent  n.  A nation or state recognized as carrying on war; a person engaged in warfare.





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"Belligerent" Quotes from Famous Books



... the brink of the most stupendous discovery of our day. The submarine was a wonderful invention, and there's no limit to the possibilities of its development—or abuse. Until an effective counter can be devised it remains a very terrible menace to civilisation in the hands of an unscrupulous belligerent." ...
— The Long Trick • Lewis Anselm da Costa Ritchie
... belligerent, and if I am wounded I cannot attend to the spiritual affaire of the dying," said Father ...
— Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships - A Story of the Last Naval War • W.H.G. Kingston
... did,' cried the carrier, who was now getting belligerent; 'he'd have the law on me ...
— The Wrong Box • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne
... Forty-second Congress, Josiah T. Walls[98] supported a measure which proposed to appropriate $3,000,000 to aid the centennial celebration and international exhibition of 1876. Sometime later, moreover, he urged the recognition of the belligerent rights of Cuba. In the Forty-fourth Congress, John A. Hyman, of North Carolina, offered a measure to provide relief for the Cherokee Indians, who had returned to the "Nation West"[99] while the measures of his colleague, Jere Haralson[100] of Alabama, comprised such objects as the ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 • Various
... in Savannah rules concerning property—severe but just—founded upon the laws of nations and the practice of civilized governments, and am clearly of opinion that we should claim all the belligerent rights over conquered countries, that the people may realize the truth that ...
— The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Complete • William T. Sherman


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