Menace vs Hostility - What's the difference?
menace | hostility |
a perceived threat or danger
* Dryden
the act of threatening
an annoying and bothersome person
To make threats against (someone); to intimidate.
* Shakespeare
To threaten (an evil to be inflicted).
* Shakespeare
To endanger (someone or something); to imperil or jeopardize.
(uncountable) The state of being hostile.
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(countable) A hostile action, especially a military action. See hostilities for specific plural definition.
As a verb menace
is .As a noun hostility is
(uncountable) the state of being hostile.menace
English
Etymology 1
First attested ante 1300: from the (etyl) manace, menace, from the (etyl) .Noun
(menaces)- the dark menace of the distant war
References
* “menace, n.'']” listed in the '' [2nd Ed.; 1989
Etymology 2
First attested in 1303: from the (etyl) menacer, manecier, manechier and the (etyl) manasser, from the assumed , whence .Verb
(transitive'' or ''intransitive )- to menace a country with war
- My master did menace me with death.
- By oath he menaced / Revenge upon the cardinal.
References
* “menace, v.'']” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989 ----
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.
