Enmity

Definitions

1. The quality of being an enemy; a hostile or unfriendly disposition.
   countable, uncountable
2. A state or feeling of opposition, hostility, hatred or animosity.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“We know⟳ from their literature that to our Saxon ancestors waste⟳ places of moor and forest and marshes were the resort of a host⟳ of supernatural creatures at enmity with mankind.”

“Some later Muses from Ionia and Sicily reckoned it safest to weave together both versions and say⟳ that that which is both many and one, held together by both enmity and amity.”

“I merely repeat⟳, remember⟳ always your duty of enmity towards Man and all his ways.”

“Maybe only a system that can contain⟳ the deep enmity between people who spell⟳ the metal aluminum and those who spell⟳ it aluminium is up to the task of preserving our fragile democratic institutions.”

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