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Definition of Irrational hostility
1. Noun. Extreme prejudice.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Irrational Hostility
Literary usage of Irrational hostility
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1922)
"Throughout 1920 the fantastic and irrational hostility to the Bolsheviks in
western Europe and western America was slowly giving way to saner conceptions of ..."
2. Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social by John Stuart Mill (1909)
"This irrational hostility to improvement, in a case in which their own interest
would be the most benefited by it, must be ascribed to an intense timidity ..."
3. The Parliamentary Debatesby Thomas Curson Hansard, Great Britain Parliament by Thomas Curson Hansard, Great Britain Parliament (1821)
"... and to ascertain that no interested views, no ideas of visionary danger, no
irrational hostility to a great class of his fellow subjects, influenced his ..."
4. The Negro: The Southerner's Problem by Thomas Nelson Page (1904)
"... and that, consequently, the lynching of Negroes has been the result of irrational
hostility or of wanton cruelty. Thus, the matter is, to some extent, ..."
5. The Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle by Henry Thomas Buckle (1872)
"... mildly calls this an " irrational hostility to improvement;" but it is rather
the systematic bigotry of a body of men who are ..."
6. Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social by John Stuart Mill (1909)
"This irrational hostility to improvement, in a case in which their own interest
would be the most benefited by it, must be ascribed to an intense timidity ..."
7. International Government: Two Reports by Leonard Woolf (1916)
"... that this natural and irrational hostility, though it lie dormant for years,
must break out and spend itself periodically in bloodshed, and that, ..."
8. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1922)
"Throughout 1920 the fantastic and irrational hostility to the Bolsheviks in
western Europe and western America was slowly giving way to saner conceptions of ..."
9. Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social by John Stuart Mill (1909)
"This irrational hostility to improvement, in a case in which their own interest
would be the most benefited by it, must be ascribed to an intense timidity ..."
10. The Parliamentary Debatesby Thomas Curson Hansard, Great Britain Parliament by Thomas Curson Hansard, Great Britain Parliament (1821)
"... and to ascertain that no interested views, no ideas of visionary danger, no
irrational hostility to a great class of his fellow subjects, influenced his ..."
11. The Negro: The Southerner's Problem by Thomas Nelson Page (1904)
"... and that, consequently, the lynching of Negroes has been the result of irrational
hostility or of wanton cruelty. Thus, the matter is, to some extent, ..."
12. The Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle by Henry Thomas Buckle (1872)
"... mildly calls this an " irrational hostility to improvement;" but it is rather
the systematic bigotry of a body of men who are ..."
13. Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social by John Stuart Mill (1909)
"This irrational hostility to improvement, in a case in which their own interest
would be the most benefited by it, must be ascribed to an intense timidity ..."
14. International Government: Two Reports by Leonard Woolf (1916)
"... that this natural and irrational hostility, though it lie dormant for years,
must break out and spend itself periodically in bloodshed, and that, ..."
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