enmity
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Variant spellings[1]
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Etymology[edit]
From Old French enemisté, ennemistié, from Late Latin, Vulgar Latin *inimīcitās, *inimīcitātem, from Latin inimīcus (“enemy”); cognates: French inimitié, Portuguese inimizade, Spanish enemistad.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɛn.mɪ.tɪ/[1]
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈɛn.mɪ.tiː/, /ˈɛm.nɪ.tiː/
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Noun[edit]
enmity (countable and uncountable, plural enmities)
- The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition.
- A state or feeling of opposition, hostility, hatred or animosity.
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1945 May, George Orwell, chapter 1, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:
- I merely repeat, remember always your duty of enmity towards Man and all his ways.
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Quotations[edit]
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1611, Bible (King James 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.
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Translations[edit]
hostile or unfriendly disposition
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References[edit]
- enmity in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- enmity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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