Enmity

/ˈɛn.mɪ.ti/ · noun

Meaning

The quality of being an enemy; a hostile or unfriendly disposition..

Definitions by Sense

1. The quality of being an enemy; a hostile or unfriendly disposition.
2. A state or feeling of opposition, hostility, hatred or animosity.

Example Sentences

We know from their literature that to our Saxon ancestors waste places of moor and forest and marshes were the resort of a host of supernatural creatures at enmity with mankind.

Some later Muses from Ionia and Sicily reckoned it safest to weave together both versions and say that that which is both many and one, held together by both enmity and amity.

I merely repeat, remember always your duty of enmity towards Man and all his ways.

Maybe only a system that can contain the deep enmity between people who spell the metal aluminum and those who spell it aluminium is up to the task of preserving our fragile democratic institutions.

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