state of war

English

Noun

state of war (plural states of war)

  2. A state of armed conflict between states, irrespective of a declaration of war.
    • 1941 December 8, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 6:42 from the start, in Day of Infamy Speech‎[1], Washington, D.C.:
      I ask that the Congress declare, that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December 7th, 1941, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese Empire.
    • 1956 March, R. C. Blaker, “The Hedjaz Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 167:
      In 1924 the Hashemite King Hussein was driven out of the Hedjaz by Ibn Saud, and a state of war sprang up between the new kingdoms of Saudi Arabia and Trans-Jordan.

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