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combativeness

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com·bat·ive  (km-btv)
adj.
Eager or disposed to fight; belligerent. See Synonyms at argumentative.
com·bative·ly adv.
com·bative·ness n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.combativeness - a militant aggressiveness
militance, militancy
aggressiveness - the quality of being bold and enterprising
scrappiness - the trait of being scrappy and pugnacious
Translations
combativeness [ˈkɒmbətɪvnɪs] n → combativité f
combat jacket n → veste f de treillis
combat trousers npl → pantalon de treillis m


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This family training, too, combined with their turn for combativeness, makes them eminently quixotic.
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Gridley, a man of a robust will and surprising energy--intellectually speaking, a sort of inharmonious blacksmith--and he could easily imagine that there Gridley was, years ago, wandering about in life for something to expend his superfluous combativeness upon--a sort of Young Love among the thorns--when the Court of Chancery came in his way and accommodated him with the exact thing he wanted.
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