Meaning of ENMITY
| Pronunciation: | | 'enmitee
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- [n] the feeling of a hostile person; "he could no longer contain his hostility"
- [n] a state of deep-seated ill-will
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| | Synonyms: | | antagonism, hostility, hostility, ill will |
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| | See Also: | | aggression, aggressiveness, animosity, animus, antagonism, bad blood, belligerence, belligerency, bitterness, class feeling, gall, hate, hatred, latent hostility, rancor, rancour, resentment, state, state of war, suspicion, tension, war | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \En"mi*ty\, n.; pl. {Enmities}. [OE. enemyte, fr. enemy:
cf. F. inimiti['e], OF. enemisti['e]. See {Enemy}, and cf.
{Amity}.]
1. The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly
disposition.
No ground of enmity between us known. --Milton.
2. A state of opposition; hostility.
The friendship of the world is enmity with God.
--James iv. 4.
Syn: Rancor; hostility; hatred; aversion; antipathy;
repugnance; animosity; ill will; malice; malevolence.
See {Animosity}, {Rancor}.
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| | Definition: | | deep-rooted hatred. "I will put enmity between thee and the woman, between thy seed and her seed" (Gen. 3:15). The friendship of the world is "enmity with God" (James 4:4; 1 John 2:15, 16). The "carnal mind" is "enmity against God" (Rom. 8:7). By the abrogation of the Mosaic institutes the "enmity" between Jew and Gentile is removed. They are reconciled, are "made one" (Eph. 2:15, 16). |
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| | Related Terms: | | abhorrence, abomination, alienation, allergy, altercation, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, argument, aversion, bad blood, bickering, bitterness, cat-and-dog life, clash, clashing, cold sweat, collision, combat, competition, conflict, contention, contentiousness, contest, contestation, contrariety, contrariness, controversy, creeping flesh, cross-purposes, cut and thrust, daggers, dead set, debate, detestation, disaccord, disaffection, disaffinity, discord, discordance, discordancy, Discordia, disgust, disharmony, dislike, disputation, dispute, dissension, Eris, estrangement, fighting, fractiousness, friction, gall, hate, hatred, horror, hostility, ill will, incompatibility, incompatibleness, inharmoniousness, inharmony, inimicalness, jangle, jar, Kilkenny cats, litigation, loathing, logomachy, malevolence, malice, malignancy, malignity, mischief, mortal horror, nausea, negativeness, noncooperation, obstinacy, open conflict, oppugnancy, paper war, perverseness, polemic, quarrel, quarreling, quarrelsomeness, rancor, recalcitrance, refractoriness, repugnance, repulsion, rivalry, rub, scrapping, shuddering, spite, spleen, squabbling, strained relations, strife, struggle, tension, uncooperativeness, uncordiality, unfriendliness, unharmoniousness, unpleasantness, vying, war, war of words, warfare, words, wrangling |
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