The phrase "traditional hostility" is correct and usable in written English.
It typically refers to historical resentment between groups of people, often due to competing cultural values. For example, you could say, "The traditional hostility between the two countries had been simmering for generations before they finally reached an agreement."
Then there is the programme's jaunty circumnavigation of the BBC's traditional hostility to corporate endorsement.
To be received with all the traditional hostility and aggression of the Shed was, believe it or not, my version of bliss.
In 1948 49 Chifley altered Australia's traditional hostility toward Asian nations by siding with the Indonesians against the Dutch in the Netherlands East Indies (now Indonesia).
The traditional hostility between the Il-Khans and the Mamlūks of Syria and Egypt persisted, however, and a badly organized invasion of Mamlūk territory took place in 1312.
Polls showed Virginians, despite their traditional hostility to taxes, willing to pay more, especially for schools, public safety and health care.
But in an article in the Times, Justin Welby, the current archbishop and head of the Church of England, reaffirmed the church's traditional hostility to any move that would endanger the principle of the sanctity of life.
I do detect a little softening of the traditional Tory hostility to AV.
He delivered a speech in Berlin recently which didn't retreat one iota from his traditional Euro hostility, but delivered it in sufficiently dulcet tones to dupe the press into reporting that he had significantly "softened" his stance on Europe.
Some questions tapped, quite deeply, into traditional reservoirs of hostility or at least skepticism about the electoral system.
Furthermore, there was a traditional radical English hostility towards collectivism and a rich civil society of clubs and institutes not overly seduced by continental communism.
Polls alone don't capture how visceral anti-American feelings have become, spreading beyond traditional centers of hostility -- mosques and other strongholds of conservative Islamists, Arab nationalists and others -- across the spectrum of Arab society.
