belligerency

English

Noun

belligerency (usually uncountable, plural belligerencies)

1. Alternative form of belligerence
   • 1964, Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, New York: Scribner, “Scott Fitzgerald,” p. 173,^[1]

     Scott was a little unsteady now and he looked at people out of the side of his eyes with a certain belligerency.