enmity
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Etymology[edit]
From Middle English enemyte, from Old French enemisté, ennemistié, from Late Latin, Vulgar Latin *inimīcitās, *inimīcitātem, from Latin inimīcus (“enemy”); cognates: French inimitié, Portuguese inimizade, Spanish enemistad.[1] Equivalent to enemy + -ity.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɛn.mɪ.ti/, (proscribed) /ˈɛm.nɪ.ti/[1]
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɛn.mɪ.ti/, (proscribed) /ˈɛm.nɪ.ti/
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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.
- 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 1, in Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:
- I merely repeat, remember always your duty of enmity towards Man and all his ways.
Quotations[edit]
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Genesis 3:15, column 1:
- And I will put enmitie betweene thee and the woman, and betweene thy ſeed and her ſeed: it ſhal bruiſe thy head, and thou ſhalt bruiſe his heele.
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Translations[edit]
hostile or unfriendly disposition
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References[edit]
- enmity in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- enmity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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