Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
enmity .
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Examples
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Usually, when there is rivalry over certain things, enemity is alot more justified.
jaimewolf Diary Entry jaimewolf 2006
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Grudges are good grudges when people wage a cold war: it becomes venomous when enemity emerges.
jaimewolf Diary Entry jaimewolf 2006
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But it seems that in the Chavez new world order, enemity toward the US is the high mark of civilization.
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But it seems that in the Chavez new world order, enemity toward the US is the high mark of civilization.
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African National Congress PWV chairman Tokyo Sexwale recommended to the Goldstone Commission on Wednesday that township communities should be "linked" with local police stations in order to avert the existing legacy of enemity.
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Between Bismarck and Whiskers there existed a deep rooted enemity, which always culminated in pitched battles.
Jack Wright and His Electric Stage; or, Leagued Against the James Boys
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To those authors whom he had personally offended, and to those whose opinion the world considered as decisive, and whom he suspected of envy or malevolence, he sent his Essay as a present before publication, that they might defeat their own enemity by praises which they could not afterwards decently retract.
Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope Johnson, Samuel 1891
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In turning over matters as they stood between them, he could trace Burke's enemity to no adequate cause; nor indeed could he believe it possible that he entertained any such inveterate feeling of hostility against him.
The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831
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From this topic he could not help reverting, as he pursued his way home, to the hints he had received with respect to Hycy Burke's enemity towards him, the cause of which he could not clearly understand.
The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831
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To those authors whom he had personally offended, and to those whose opinion the world considered as decisive, and whom he suspected of envy or malevolence, he sent his Essay as a present before publication, that they might defeat their own enemity by praises which they could not afterwards decently retract.
Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope Samuel Johnson 1746
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