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inimicability

inimicability noun: the quality of being inimicable.

Noun

inimicability (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The quality of being inimicable.
    • But upon going through the Work, he confeſſed that he ſoon became reconciled to me, was ſenſible of a ſtrong Sympathy of feeling coming upon him every Chapter, and ſaid to himſelf, “This Man, ſurely, hath no Inimicability in his Nature.”1770, Henry [pseudonym; Richard Griffith], Frances [pseudonym; Elizabeth Griffith], “Letter DXCVII. Henry to Frances.”, in A Series of Genuine Letters, between Henry and Frances, volume V, London...
    • [Edward] Sexby made some telling points concerning the soldiers, who had risked their lives in the war and were now told that they had no rights in the kingdom. [Oliver] Cromwell however showed his general inimicability to Sexby’s manner and attack by observing briskly that such sentiments did...1973, Antonia Fraser, “The game at cards”, in Cromwell, Our Chief of Men, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, →ISBN, part 2 (War and Peace), page 218

Origin of inimicability

From inimic(able) + -ability. Piecewise doublet of inamiability, inamicability, unamiability, and unamicability.

Questions about inimicability

What does inimicability mean?
Inimicability means the quality of being inimicable.
What part of speech is inimicability?
Inimicability is a noun.

Words near inimicability in the dictionary

  1. Iniguihan District
  2. iniid
  3. iniids
  4. inimaginable
  5. inimic
  6. inimicability
  7. inimicable
  8. inimicably
  9. inimical
  10. inimicalities
  11. inimicality

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