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enmities

enmities is the plural of enmity.

Meaning of enmity

Noun

enmity (countable and uncountable, plural enmities)

  1. The quality of being an enemy; a hostile or unfriendly disposition.
    • 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.1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals, London: Longmans, Green and Co., page 14
  2. A state or feeling of opposition, hostility, hatred or animosity.
    • I merely repeat, remember always your duty of enmity towards Man and all his ways.1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC

Questions about enmities

What is enmities the plural of?
Enmities is the plural of enmity.

Words near enmities in the dictionary

  1. enmiring
  2. enmist
  3. enmisted
  4. enmisting
  5. enmists
  6. enmities
  7. enmity
  8. enmix
  9. enmixed
  10. enmixes
  11. enmixing

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