Enmity Definition

ĕnmĭ-tē
enmities
noun
enmities
Deep-seated, often mutual hatred.
American Heritage
The bitter attitude or feelings of an enemy or of mutual enemies; hostility; antagonism.
Webster's New World
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Noun

Singular:
enmity
Plural:
enmities

Origin of Enmity

  • From Old French enemisté, ennemistié, from Late Latin *inimīcitās, *inimīcitātem, from Latin inimīcus (“enemy”); cognates: French inimitié, Portuguese inimizade, Spanish enemistad.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English enemite from Old French enemistie from Vulgar Latin inimīcitās from Latin inimīcus enemy enemy

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Enmity Sentence Examples

  • Great popularity necessarily brings with it bitter enmity and genuine criticism.

  • This won him the enmity of the Dutch Socialists.

  • It is stated that the enmity against him was so great that now, as on other occasions, attempts were made to assassinate him.

  • He was a consenting party to the murder of Darnley, although he had favoured his marriage with Mary, but the enmity between Bothwell and himself was one of the reasons which drove him into the arms of the queen's enemies, among whom he figured at Langside.

  • The Pawnees contested the plains against the Sioux with undying enmity.

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