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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character or quality of being combative; disposition to contend or fight; pugnacity. By phrenologists the word is used to designate one of the propensities. See cut under
phrenology .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being combative; propensity to contend or to quarrel.
- noun (Phren.) A cranial development supposed to indicate a combative disposition.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the state of being
combative
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a militant aggressiveness
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