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martiality

martiality

English

Noun

martiality (plural martialities)

  1. suitability for war, likelihood of success in war, tendancy to wage war
    The Romans' martiality was much greater than that of its contemporaries.
    • 2007Vincent Quinn Textual Practice 113: Luxurious Sexualities
      Hume argued that the new modes of behaviour which developed in a commercial society actually improved the nation's martiality.
    • 2002Kenneth Muir Shakespeare Survey
      Antony and Cleopatra heralds the decline of Roman honour and the shift from martiality to eros,

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