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Word entry · 6 letters

enmity

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"Deep hostility"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈɛn.mɪ.ti/Part of speech nounSorted eimntyStarts with EEnds with Y1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the feeling of a hostile person

Word origin

From Middle English enemyte, from Old French enemisté, ennemistié, from Late Latin, Vulgar Latin *inimīcitās, *inimīcitātem, from Latin inimīcus (“enemy”). Cognate with French inimitié, Portuguese inimizade, Spanish enemistad. By surface analysis, en(e)m(y) + -ity.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.

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