Noah Webster
Hostility
HOSTIL'ITY, noun [Latin hostilitas, from hostis, an enemy.]
1. The state of war between nations or states; the actions of an open enemy; aggression; attacks of an enemy. These secret enmities broke out in hostilities.
Hostility being thus suspended with France.
We have carried on even our hostilities with humanity.
2. Private enmity; a sense less proper.