enemy

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  1. noun One who feels hatred toward, intends injury to, or opposes the interests of another; a foe.
  2. noun A hostile power or force, such as a nation.
  3. noun A member or unit of such a force.
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  • I lost no time in confirming my converts; and, ramming down my eloquence with a wad of doubloons, ordered every man to his post, for the enemy was again in motion. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Captain Canot, or Twenty Years of an African Slaver, by Brantz Mayer and Theodore Canot.
  • However, the enemy was approaching, and for the last three days he had solicited the Provisional Government to place a frigate at his disposal, with which he might proceed to America. —  The Memoirs of Napoleon, V14, 1815
  • The role of the Commander-in-Chief he described as being to supply each part of the fighting line with as great a number of troops as the enemy was able to bring at any point, but he added that the fate of battles and the successful issue of the campaign would depend upon the initiative, the courage, and above all the endurance of individuals and of individual units. —  GENERAL JOFFRE
  • Thereby the enemy will be annihilated and the eternal foundations of our motherland will be secured. —  The Divine Wind
  • He told me that the enemy was advancing towards the frontier, and that the bridge of Bale would not be destroyed, as it had been so agreed at Berne, where the Allies had gained the day. —  The Memoirs of Napoleon, V12, 1814
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English enemi, from Old French, from Latin inimīcus : in-, not; see in-1 + amīcus, friend.

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  1. Early modern English also enemic; from Middle English enemy, enemye, often syncopated enmy (cf. enmity), from Old French enemi, anemi, French ennemi = Provencal enemic = Spanish enemigo = Portuguese inimigo = Italian nemico, from Latin inimicus, an enemy, literally an unfriend, from in- privative, = English un-, + amicus, a friend: see amiable, amicable, amity. Cf. inimical, inimicous.
  2. Middle English enemyen, from Old French enemier, ennemier, from Latin inimicare, make hostile, from inimicus, hostile, an enemy: see enemy, n.
 

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