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  • noun Plural form of amity.

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Examples

  • I hear your amities abut the offload opportunity, but I think that and you position that learning equals practice narrowly defines important concepts.

    If you haven't practiced, you haven't learned anything Clark Aldrich 2006

  • Utterson was amazed; the dark influence of Hyde had been withdrawn, the doctor had returned to his old tasks and amities; a week ago, the prospect had smiled with every promise of a cheerful and an honoured age; and now in a moment, friendship, and peace of mind, and the whole tenor of his life were wrecked.

    The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 2004

  • I promise you, the effects he writes of succeed unhappily; as of unnaturalness between the child and the parent; death, dearth, dissolutions of ancient amities; divisions in state, menaces and maledictions against king and nobles; needless diffidences, banishment of friends, dissipation of cohorts, nuptial breaches, and I know not what.

    King Lear 2004

  • Realmes, lands & dominions hath bene of old times hitherto continued nor nothing by our said soueraigne Lord the king or his people to be attempted or done whereby such amities by reason of any dissensions, enemities or discords might be broken: by the aduise of the Lords spintuall & temporall & of the comons of his said Realme of England, assembled in this present

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • At stanzas instinct with blythe and cordial amities, more brotherly the grasp of peasant's in peasant's toil-hardened hands!

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Various

  • My sisters send their amities, and will write in a few days.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 Various

  • From existing amities and a spirit of justice it is hoped that friendly discussion will produce a fair and adequate reciprocity.

    State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.

  • American commerce with the old world, and gave an impulse to those international interests and those commercial amities which have bound

    Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post Thomas Rainey

  • ” Utterson was amazed; the dark influence of Hyde had been withdrawn, the doctor had returned to his old tasks and amities; a week ago, the prospect had smiled with every promise of a cheerful and an honoured age; and now in a moment, friendship, and peace of mind, and the whole tenor of his life were wrecked.

    Remarkable Incident of Dr 1921

  • I promise you the effects he writes of succeed unhappily; as of unnaturalness between the child and the parent; death, dearth, dissolutions of ancient amities; divisions in state; menaces and maledictions against king and nobles; needless diffidences, banishment of friends, dissipation of cohorts, nuptial breaches, and I know not what.

    Act I. Scene II. King Lear 1914

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