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Plural of enmity

regular plural

The plural of enmity is enmities.

Forms of enmity

Singularenmity /ˈɛn.mɪ.ti/
Pluralenmities
Countablecountable and uncountable

Enmities in a sentence

  • And so new friendships were formed, and new enmities, and old friendships preserved, and old enmities.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC. From the entry redistribute
  • The Provencals killed all enmities over their Yule Log.1920 December 25, “The Present Moment”, in Rose Young, editor, The Woman Citizen: A Weekly Chronicle of Progress, volume LI (Old Style) /…. From the entry saturnalian
  • Those who are involved in long enmities sacrifice continually to the hidit in order to offstand such affliction.1919, Roy Franklin Barton, Ifugao economics: Volume 15, Issues 1-5. From the entry offstand

Meaning of enmity

  1. noun The quality of being an enemy; a hostile or unfriendly disposition.
  2. noun A state or feeling of opposition, hostility, hatred or animosity.

Full definition of enmity

Questions about the plural of enmity

What is the plural of enmity?
The plural of enmity is enmities.
Is enmity countable?
Enmity is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: enmity (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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