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amity
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synonyms: concord, comity, benignity ???
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Definition:Friendship, in a general sense, between individuals, societies, or nations; friendly relations; good understandingNoah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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“that in order to maintain the peace and amity between both empires, his master expected that his brother of Blefuscu would give orders to have me sent back to Lilliput, bound hand and foot, to be punished as a traitor.”
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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Tush Philautus, I am in this point of Euripides' mind, who thinks it lawful for the desire of a kingdom to transgress the bonds of honesty, and for the love of a lady to violate and break the bonds of amity.
John Lyly. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578)
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As peace should still her wheaten garland wear
And stand a comma 'tween their amities,
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