belligerency

English

Noun

belligerency (usually uncountable, plural belligerencies)

1. Alternative form of belligerence
   • 1964, Ernest Hemingway, “Scott Fitzgerald”, in A Moveable Feast‎^[1], New York: Scribner, page 173:

     Scott was a little unsteady now and he looked at people out of the side of his eyes with a certain belligerency.

Derived terms

• nonbelligerency