Both Uses
belligerent
in
Washington's Farewell Address
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- the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel.†
- I will only observe that, according to my understanding of the matter, that right, so far from being denied by any of the belligerent powers, has been virtually admitted by all.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(belligerent) hostile (the attitude of one eager to fight); or one already engaged in a fight or war
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)