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PERMANENT JOURNEY RECORD / 95

COMPLETE ROUTE ↗
STAGE 04broadNO SINGLE PIN

1580 first-known-use horizon onward

English-language hostile senses

hostile DOSSIER ↗
THE REVIEWED ROUTE CLAIM

From the enemy-related adjective, English hostile expands to unfriendly, oppositional, legal, corporate, workplace, and environmental senses.

COORDINATES STORED
NO
HONEST TO PLOT
NO
PLACEMENT MODE
broad
TIME PRECISION
open
NUMERIC TIME BOUND
YES
CLAIM CITATIONS
2
THE TEMPORAL CLAIM

THIS STAGE ENTERS THE TIMELINE.

The open interval begins with Merriam-Webster’s 1580 first-known-use year. It does not imply that every later legal, corporate, social, or environmental extension arose then.

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  1. supports

    Hostile — Word History

    Documents enemy-related, unfriendly, oppositional, environmental, legal, and corporate senses and reports 1580 as the first known English use.

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  2. supports

    Hostile — Word History

    Documents current enemy, opposition, and adverse senses and derives Latin hostīlis from hostis while linking the adjective to the ghos-ti- family.

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