The Devil's Dictionary: Hostility

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
HOSPITALITY
HOURI

HOSTILITY

-n.

A peculiarly sharp and specially applied sense of the earth's overpopulation. Hostility is classified as active and passive; as (respectively) the feeling of a woman for her female friends, and that which she entertains for all the rest of her sex.

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