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enmity - use in sentences
Preposition: of
- man: You may expect an increase of the enmity of man.
Converse of object
- incur: Within one week, he'd incurred the total enmity of the entire lighting crew.
- earn: This earned the enmity of the Royalist Marquis of Montrose who mistrusted Argyll.
- put: God says, " And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers.
- cause: Are able to discipline someone in a way that does not cause enmity.
- have: I said it to satisfy your mind that I had no enmity of feeling toward the lady, on my side.
- destroy: The most intelligent military can destroy the enmity within the enemy Maharishi explained the logic of prevention.
Adjective modifier
- bitter: Much was made at the time, and subsequently, of the ' bitter enmity " between the two.
- ancient: Popular support, grounded in ancient enmity, withered as tens of thousands of coffins arrived from the battlefields.
- old: They are his seed, and there is an old enmity between the seeds.
- personal: There is no personal enmity between the two groups.
- mutual: By 1727, for reasons that are obscure, her friendship with Pope had turned to mutual enmity.
Preposition: between
- seed: They are his seed, and there is an old enmity between the seeds.
- nation: The chronic enmity between these two nations culminated at last in a descent on Samoa by the men of Tonga.
- man: But there are much deeper, unacknowledged reasons for the enmity between the two men.
- country: The mission may prove to be the dawn of a new tomorrow, ending the long-standing enmity between two countries.
- group: There is no personal enmity between the two groups.
Preposition: within
- enemy: The most intelligent military can destroy the enmity within the enemy Maharishi explained the logic of prevention.
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