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Hostility vs Witherward - What's the difference?

hostility | witherward |

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

  • (uncountable) The state of being hostile.
  • *, II.12:
  • There is no hostilitie so excellent, as that which is absolutely Christian.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 1, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
  • , title= 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.}}
  • * 2013 September 28, (Kenan Malik), " 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.
  • (countable) A hostile action, especially a military action. See hostilities for specific plural definition.
  • Synonyms

    * (state of being hostile) antagonism, opposition, enmity, animosity, antipathy, hatred * (military action) war, fighting, combat

    Antonyms

    * (state of being hostile) amity, friendliness * (military action) peace

    witherward

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Adverse, contrary.
  • Opposite, opposing; hostile.
  • * 1852 , The whole works of King Alfred the Great :
  • [...] 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

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Contrary to, against.
  • Noun

    (-)
  • Opposite; adversity, opposition; hostility
  • * 1850 , Henry Mills Alden, Harper's new monthly magazine: Volume 1, Issues 1-6 :
  • 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.
  • * 1912 , American Chemical Society, Journal of the American Chemical Society: Volume 34, Issues 1-6 :
  • 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."
  • * 1950 , Thomas Hardy, The mayor of Casterbridge :
  • 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 : [...]
    English words prefixed with wither-