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Engaged in war or other conflict. examples
Apt to provoke a fight. quotations examples
It seems like a fighting insult, but he explains.
1925 April 11, "Books", in The New Yorker, page 26
Them's fighting words in my country!
1947, Hold That Lion! (film)
Those are fighting words, of course, and the people who presently hold the high ground of economic power in society will not be amused.
2003, Marjorie Kelly, The Divine Right of Capital: Dethroning the Corporate Aristocracy, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, page xi
present participle and gerund of fight examples
countable and uncountable, plural fightings
The act or process of contending; violence or conflict. examples
A fight or battle; an occasion on which people fight quotations examples
Then here the warres end, here our fightings marde, Yet by your leave Ile stand upon my Guard.
1613, “The Costlie Whore”, in A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV.
Seid had fallen in the War of Tabuc, the first of Mahomet's fightings with the Greeks.
1840, Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History
A good many soldiers, and some officers, were present; but the expression of our dissent from all wars and fightings had not displeased them, for they shook hands with US most kindly.
1860, John Yeardley, Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel