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enmity

/ˈɛn.mɪ.ti/

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What does enmity mean?

noun

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

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/ˈɛn.mɪ.ti/

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/ˈɛm.nɪ.ti/
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Next day the weather was bad, but she trudged on, the honesty, directness, and impartiality of elemental enmity disconcerting her but little.
Thomas HardyTess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure WomanProject Gutenberg ebook #110
But after he had, being enamored of her too, as has been said, married her, Teribazus entertained an irreconcilable enmity against him.
PlutarchPlutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and RomansProject Gutenberg ebook #674
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For already the wise toddler had learned something of the bitter enmity of the heathen world, and knew that converts meant friends.
Mary Esther Miller MacGregorThe Black-Bearded Barbarian : The Life of George Leslie Mackay of FormosaProject Gutenberg ebook #1759
Worse than resentment smoldered against the father, a dull, deadening enmity, born in the hateful hours of his odious, but helpless, dementia.
Robert S. (Robert Sproul) CarrollOur Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of NervousnessProject Gutenberg ebook #5994
The most trivial statement of fact can be relied on, provided it is given outside of trade or enmity or absolute indifference.
Stewart Edward WhiteThe ForestProject Gutenberg ebook #9376