Also -ancy. [f. as prec.: see -ENCY.] The position or status of a belligerent.
1863. C. Sumner, Our For. Rel., 6. The absurdity and wrong of conceding Ocean Belligerancy to a pretended Power, which in the first place, is without a Prize Court.
1864. Times, 22 Dec., 6/1. What would the Government of the United States have said if it had been intimated to them that they would not be permitted to concede to Russia the rights of naval belligerency?
1877. Morley, Crit. Misc., Ser. II. 392. Macaulay … steeps us in an atmosphere of belligerency.
