Belligerents is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BELLIGERENTS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• BELLIGERENT, one who wages war
• a nation or person engaged in war or conflict, as recognized by international law
ADJECTIVE:
• hostile and aggressive
• engaged in a war or conflict, as recognized by international law
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• waging war; belonging to or recognized as a state at war and protected by and subject to the laws of war

Words related to BELLIGERENTS

belligerent14

Words that contain BELLIGERENTS

cobelligerents19 nonbelligerents18

How to use BELLIGERENTS in a sentence

• No less indicative is it of a new world that the allowance laws of all the western belligerents recognize common-law marriages.
• Then, he made the belligerents pay each 40,000 dollars, as pacification-money, the value of which he levied on slaves.
• Creeping as close to the belligerents as possible, he found that one was a wild turkey-cock, the other a white-headed eagle.
• I have often urged that the rights of war, now guaranteed to belligerents, should be extended to rebels.
• It may be worth while in concluding to note the relations of the Balkan belligerents of 1912-1913 to the two groups of belligerents in the present world-conflict.
• I remarked in the foregoing Introduction, that Roumania would not abandon her neutrality till fortune had declared more decisively for one or the other group of belligerents.
• But none of the belligerents showed any mercy on Bulgaria.
• I make no doubt that the same things would be acted over again, were similar wrongs to be committed by the same powerful belligerents.
• But God so ordered it that both belligerents alike set up trophies as claiming victory, and neither interfered with the other in the act.
• It will be seen, that, accurately speaking, the term applies exclusively to the relation between a belligerent and a neutral, and not to the relation between belligerents.
• In numbers, the belligerents could not have been less than from four to five thousand men.
• Once recognized as belligerents, they will be able to buy what they need in our ports, and fit out a navy to fight Spain.
• It was now winter, and the belligerents, during these stormy months, were active in making preparations for the campaign of the spring.
• Again the belligerents gathered their resources, with still increasing vigor, for another campaign.
• He declined to act on a resolution of Congress in favor of giving to the Cubans the rights of belligerents.
• At a suggestion from Tokyo, he invited both belligerents in the summer of 1905 to join in a peace conference.
• That is to say, Belgium was forbidden, in case of war, to take the part of any of the belligerents.
• We shall thus become what we sincerely wish to be, honestly neutral, and truly useful to both belligerents.
• We have been pressed by the belligerents to the very wall, and all further retreat is impracticable.
• The moment for exerting these united powers, to repel the injuries of the belligerents of Europe, seems likely to be pressed upon us.
• The edicts of the two belligerents, forbidding us to be seen on the ocean, we met by an embargo.
• Meantime the two huge belligerents were hammering stunning blows at each other.
• It was simply a suggestion that the belligerents on both sides should state the terms on which they would be willing to consider and discuss peace.
• The bitterness of the belligerents against each other is of a far more intense and sanguinary kind than that which ordinarily exists between combatants.
• After the belligerents had been quieted, and Officer had removed and tied his horse to a convenient tree, he came over and joined our group, among which were the six trail bosses.
• Washington and his chief advisers believed that the United States ought to remain neutral as between the two belligerents.
• Reflection caused the Spaniards to regret that they had not consented to keep open the cable, that it might be used under restrictions by both belligerents.
• This Government from time to time exerted its friendly offices to bring about a termination of hostilities upon terms honorable alike to both the belligerents.
• Corwin asks instructions by which to regulate his proceedings so as to save our national interests in the case of an adjustment of the difficulties between the belligerents.
• The belligerents, hitherto deaf to every suggestion of the kind, now accepted an invitation from President Roosevelt and appointed commissioners to arrange the terms of a treaty.
• This rule, it is believed, is universally admitted in cases of belligerents going themselves to a neutral country to make their purchases.

Similar words containing BELLIGERENT without suffix s

belligerent14 belligerently19 cobelligerent18 unbelligerent16 cobelligerents19 nonbelligerent17 nonbelligerents18

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