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Definition:n. the quality of being an enemy: unfriendliness: ill-will: hostility.Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (1908)---1. The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition.2. A state of opposition; hostility.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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the people of the village in which I lived, though not exactly at enmity with the natives of the north end of the island, were distinctly averse to holding any more communication with them than was absolutely necessary,
Louis Becke. The Strange Adventure of James Shervinton (1902)
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The sultans for the most part are enemies to each other, which enmities are fomented and kept up by the Dutch, whose fort and factory is in the kingdom of Kupang; and therefore the bay near which they are settled, is commonly called Kupang Bay.
William Dampier William. A Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland, Etc. in the Year 1699 .
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Fly to a brother’s aid whoever he may be, exhort him who goeth astray, raise him that falleth, never bear malice or enmity toward thy brother.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman . Simon & Schuster
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We clasped hands reflexively, enmities buried in fear.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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It was all cold trickery, it was all calculated, it was all enmity.
John Knowles. A Separate Peace, p.63 (1959)
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This lord, in conjunction with Flimnap the high-treasurer, whose enmity against you is notorious on account of his lady, Limtoc the general, Lalcon the chamberlain, and Balmuff the grand justiciary, have prepared articles of impeachment against you, for treason and other capital crimes.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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