martiality

English

Etymology

martial +‎ -ity

Noun

martiality (plural martialities)

  1. suitability for war, likelihood of success in war, tendency to wage war
    The Romans' martiality was much greater than that of its contemporaries.
    • 2007 — Vincent 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.
    • 2002 — Kenneth Muir Shakespeare Survey
      Antony and Cleopatra heralds the decline of Roman honour and the shift from martiality to eros,

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