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enmity|ˈɛnmɪtɪ|
Forms: 4–6 enem-, enmyte(e, ennemite, -yte, 4 enmit(y)e, 5 enymyte, 6 enem-, enimitie, ennimitie, enim-, inimity, 6– enmity.
[ad. OF. enemistié, ennemistié (Fr. inimitié), = Pr. enemistat, Sp. enemistad:—late L. *inimīcitāt-em, f. inimīcus: see enemy.]
1. The disposition or the feelings characteristic of an enemy; ill-will, hatred.
a1300Cursor M. 4078 (Gött.) Ne wald þai neuer apon him se, Fra þat day bot wid enmite [Trin. enemyte]. c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 301 For enemyte þat þei han to a man. 1483Caxton Cato I viii b, For enymyte and hate are contrary to frendship and concorde. 1535Coverdale Isa. xi. 13 The hatred of Ephraim, and y⊇ enmyte of Iuda shalbe clene rooted out. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. (1885) 92 The..inimity borne toward thair parents to instil in the hartes of thair barnes. 1667Milton P.L. i. 431 Can..works of love or enmity fulfill. 1768Sterne Sent. Journ., Riddle (1778) II. 115 A man who values a good night's rest will not lie down with enmity in his heart, if he can help it. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 353 He hated me, and his enmity was shared by several who were present.
2. The condition of being an enemy; a state of mutual hostility; esp. in phrase at enmity or in enmity.
a1400Chester Pl. (1843–7) 31 And enmitye betwene you towe..I shall make. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 379/3 By cause there shold noo debate ne enemyte falle betwene the brethren. 1579North Plutarch 541 So civill and temperate were mens enmities at that time. 1593Shakes. Rich. II, ii. ii. 68, I will dispaire, and be at enmitie With couzening hope. 1602Segar Hon. Mil. & Civ. i. iii. 4 When the Romanes were divided, one faction labouring to oppresse another..such enimitie was called Sedition. 1611Bible Jam. iv. 4 Know yee not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? 1667Pepys Diary (1879) IV. 479 It will prevent much trouble by having of him out of their enmity. a1704Locke (J.), In an age at enmity with all restraint. 1837H. Martineau Soc. Amer. III. 188 The growing enmity of opinion to the punishment of death. 1845Stephen Laws Eng. II. 407 Provided their parents were not at the time in enmity with our sovereign. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 581 The adventures, the attachments, the enmities of the lords and ladies who, etc.
b. transf.
1818Jas. Mill Brit. India II. iv. ix. 300 That system of patronage..is at irreconcilable enmity with the very principle of good government.
†c. to be of (a person's) enmity: to be at enmity with (him). Obs.
1641W. Hakewill Lib. of Subject 123 All Merchants Denizens and Forreins (except those which be of our enmitie) may, etc.
†3. Something that is prejudicial; a baneful influence. Obs.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) IV. 99 It is grete enemyte [inimicissimum] to werriours forto norsche sleuþe and leccherie. c1391Chaucer Astrol. ii. §4 A fortunat assendent clepen they whan..no wikkid planete haue non aspecte of enemyte up-on the assendent. c1470Harding Chron. liii. i, The water myght not the enemytee Kepe of [warre] from his trewe Britayn lande. 1605Shakes. Lear ii. iv. 212, I abiure all roofes, and chuse To wage against the enmity oth' ayre. |