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combativeness

[ US /kəmˈbætɪvnəs/ ]
[ UK /kˈɒmbətˌɪvnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. a militant aggressiveness

How To Use combativeness In A Sentence

  • Its combativeness, its hostility to everything it perceives as a threat, works against it here.
  • Natural combativeness, an innate immunity to being cowed by the biggest names or the biggest occasions in football, is obviously a vital part of the equipment he carries on to the field.
  • A hot and impulsive temper was checked by the reflection that it was beneath the dignity of human nature to allow a rush of blood to the organs of "combativeness" and The Reminiscences of an Astronomer
  • The dotted lines in Fig. 2 show the deficiency in alimentiveness, executiveness and combativeness. How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony
  • Do avoid the negative expression of the Warrior energy, such as combativeness and impulsiveness. Phyllis F. Mitz: Ask Phyllis...Astrology and Beyond
  • The law-enforcement agencies suffer from a lack of combativeness. Financial Crisis Prosecutions On Wall Street Slow To Develop Despite Cries For Justice
  • It follows, that the desire to be well must be excited simultaneously with any principle which shall be merely a modification of combativeness, but in the case of that something which I term perverseness, the desire to be well is not only not aroused, but a strongly antagonistical sentiment exists. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2
  • Natural combativeness, an innate immunity to being cowed by the biggest names or the biggest occasions in football, is obviously a vital part of the equipment he carries on to the field.
  • The inference from this characteristic, that he possessed what phrenologists used to call "combativeness," is not unavoidable, though such was the fact. Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States
  • This combativeness may have been a sign of presenile dementia.
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