Hostility vs Witherward - What's the difference?
hostility | witherward |
(uncountable) The state of being hostile.
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(countable) A hostile action, especially a military action. See hostilities for specific plural definition.
Adverse, contrary.
Opposite, opposing; hostile.
* 1852 , The whole works of King Alfred the Great :
Opposite; adversity, opposition; hostility
* 1850 , Henry Mills Alden, Harper's new monthly magazine: Volume 1, Issues 1-6 :
* 1912 , American Chemical Society, Journal of the American Chemical Society: Volume 34, Issues 1-6 :
* 1950 , Thomas Hardy, The mayor of Casterbridge :
As nouns the difference between hostility and witherward
is that hostility is the state of being hostile while witherward is opposite; adversity, opposition; hostility.As an adjective witherward is
adverse, contrary.As an adverb witherward is
contrary to, against.hostility
English
Noun
- There is no hostilitie so excellent, as that which is absolutely Christian.
Everton 0-2 Liverpool, passage=But with Goodison Park openly directing its full hostility towards Atkinson, Liverpool went ahead when Carroll turned in his first Premier League goal of the season after 70 minutes.}}
London Is Special, but Not That Special," New York Times (retrieved 28 September 2013):
- The polarization of wealth and the polarization of attitudes to diversity are not unrelated. A key reason for popular hostility to immigrants is that to many people, particularly within working-class communities, immigration has become a symbol of unacceptable change.
Synonyms
* (state of being hostile) antagonism, opposition, enmity, animosity, antipathy, hatred * (military action) war, fighting, combatAntonyms
* (state of being hostile) amity, friendliness * (military action) peacewitherward
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- [...] then appeared to me along the way by which I formerly came amid the darkness, as it were the brightness of a shining star, and the light was waxing more and more, and quickly hastening to me, and as soon as it came nigh me, then were scattered and away fled all the witherward ghosts, which formerly threatened me with their tongs, [...]
- at the witherward side of the year
Noun
(-)- Nor, although be sung the "mighty stream of tendency" of this wondrous age, did he ever launch his poetic craft upon it, nor seem to see the witherward of its swift and awful stress.
- Nevertheless, he cannot be seriously opposed to scientific research as distinguished from technical research for the next four chapters deal with such theoretical subjects as "the question of the atom," "the witherward of matter," "the chemical interpretation of life" and "the beginning of things."
- They were those of the song he had sung when he arrived years before at the Three Mariners, a poor young man, adventuring for life and fortune, and scarcely knowing witherward : [...]