n.; pl.Hostilities [ L. hostilitas: cf. F. hostilité. ] 1. State of being hostile; public or private enemy; unfriendliness; animosity. [ 1913 Webster ]
Hostility being thus suspended with France. Hayward. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. An act of an open enemy; a hostile deed; especially in the plural, acts of warfare; attacks of an enemy. See hostilities [ 1913 Webster ]
He who proceeds to wanton hostility, often provokes an enemy where he might have a friend. Crabb.