Enmity
['enmɪtɪ]
Definition
(n.) The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition.
(n.) A state of opposition; hostility.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Animosity, hatred, hate, hostility, malignity, malice, aversion, malevolence, rancor, bitterness, ill-will.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Discord, hate, hostility, malevolence, maliciousness, aversion, malignity,ill-feeling, animosity, opposition, bitterness, acrimony, asperity
ANT:Friendship, love, affection, esteem, friendliness, cordiality
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Definition
n. the quality of being an enemy: unfriendliness: ill-will: hostility.
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Examples
- But if she does, I am quite sure you will find her sons able to defend their island, even against enmity and treachery. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- My heart riseth against him, said Mr. Enmity. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- An amulet was indeed made, a spell framed which rendered enmity impossible. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Who shall tell how He between whom and the Woman God put enmity forged deadly plots to break the bond or defile its purity? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It will prove her guilty, by showing that it is her habit to nourish enmity. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I am determined to find out the secret of her silence towards her mother, and her enmity towards me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- This enmity, however, had apparently expired in a renewal of friendliness between the two women. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- It was as if he were a beam of essential enmity, a beam of light that did not only destroy her, but denied her altogether, revoked her whole world. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Pity is a concern for, and malice a joy in the misery of others, without any friendship or enmity to occasion this concern or joy. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Both his friendship and enmity are of moment. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- This immediately roused a poignant pity and allegiance in Gerald's heart, always shadowed by contempt and by unadmitted enmity. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I turned concord to discord, good-will to enmity. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Who can be at enmity with one who loves them, who that is himself gentle and free from envy will be jealous of one in whom there is no jealousy? Plato. The Republic.
- There was a pause of strange enmity between the two men, that was very near to love. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I deserved the enmity of the latter, because I might have avoided it by paying him a compliment, which I neglected. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- They may be transformed to immeasurable enmities if he ventures to disturb them. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
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