enmity

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Alternative forms 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Pronunciation 1.4 Noun 1.4.1 Quotations 1.4.2 Synonyms 1.4.3 Antonyms 1.4.4 Translations 1.4.5 References

[edit] English

[edit] Alternative forms

[edit] Etymology

From Old French enemistié, ennemistié, from Late Latin *inimīcitāt(em), from Latin inimīcus (“‘enemy’”); cognates: French inimitié, Portuguese enemistat, Spanish enemistad.^[1]

[edit] Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈɛnmɪtɪ/^[1]
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[edit] Noun

enmity (plural enmities)

1. The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition.
   • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 242e.

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

2. A state or feeling of opposition, hostility, hatred or animosity.

[edit] Quotations

• 1611, King James Version of the Bible (Authorized Version), Genesis 3:15

  And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

[edit] Synonyms

• hostility, antagonism, animosity, rancor, antipathy, animus

[edit] Antonyms

• amity

[edit] Translations

[edit] References

• enmity in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• enmity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

• Notes:

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} “enmity” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2^nd Ed.; 1989]