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Synonyms for pugnacity


Grammar : Noun
Spell : puhg-ney-shuhs
Phonetic Transcription : pʌgˈneɪ ʃəs

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Définition of pugnacity

Origin :
  • c.1600, from Latin pugnacitas "fondness for fighting," from pugnax (genitive pugnacis) "combative" (see pugnacious).
  • noun fight
  • noun belligerence
Example sentences :
  • Her expression lost its pugnacity and became sincerely concerned.
  • Extract from : « 'Twixt Land & Sea » by Joseph Conrad
  • We must defend ourselves, so the instinct of pugnacity is born.
  • Extract from : « The Mind and Its Education » by George Herbert Betts
  • The 'Mercury' missed his power of organisation, his splendid gift of pugnacity.
  • Extract from : « Grey Town » by Gerald Baldwin
  • The struggling crowd had lashed his pugnacity and ensanguined his temper.
  • Extract from : « The Californians » by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
  • Celtic, he thought, from her pugnacity, and her taste in fillets and djibbahs.
  • Extract from : « The Forsyte Saga, Volume III. » by John Galsworthy
  • There was nothing like the pugnacity of the Kiddy in these years of Prothero's disaster.
  • Extract from : « The Creators » by May Sinclair
  • This, in a youth not seventeen, urged well for the pugnacity of the man.
  • Extract from : « Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy » by Anonymous
  • Fear and pugnacity are too apparent in fish to require special proof.
  • Extract from : « Animal Intelligence » by George J. Romanes
  • Well, tenacity or pugnacity conquered, and I worked on until dusk.
  • Extract from : « Tales of Secret Egypt » by Sax Rohmer
  • Yet his pugnacity was really foreign to the nature of the man.
  • Extract from : « Hugh Miller » by William Keith Leask

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