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enmity
/ˈɛn.mɪ.ti/
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What does enmity mean?
noun
- The quality of being an enemy; a hostile or unfriendly disposition.
- A state or feeling of opposition, hostility, hatred or animosity.
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IPA pronunciation
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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.
But after he had, being enamored of her too, as has been said, married her, Teribazus entertained an irreconcilable enmity against him.
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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.
Worse than resentment smoldered against the father, a dull, deadening enmity, born in the hateful hours of his odious, but helpless, dementia.
The most trivial statement of fact can be relied on, provided it is given outside of trade or enmity or absolute indifference.