Definition of "combativeness" [com•bat•ive•ness]

• The state of being combative (noun)

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• "By taking away what the phrenologists call combativeness, we could doubtless stop prize-fight, but we might have a springless society."
• "Do avoid the negative expression of the Warrior energy, such as combativeness and impulsiveness."
• "The inference from this characteristic, that he possessed what phrenologists used to call "combativeness," is not unavoidable, though such was the fact."