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Meanings of enmity in English

Portuguese
aversão
Catalan
hostilitat

The feeling of a hostile person.

        aversão
        Portuguese
        inimizade
        Spanish
        enemistad

        Quality of being an enemy.

              inimizade
              Usage of enmity in English
              1
              Misfortune cannot suppress it; enmity cannot alienate it; temptation cannot enslave it.
              The Christian Home / As it is in the Sphere of Nature and the Ch...
              2
              The enmity has impaired efforts to mediate an end to the crisis.
              Reuters
              3
              The fixture reflects enmity between Wall Street's banks and Boston's investment industry.
              Reuters
              4
              Their relations with Syria's central government, despite historic enmity, are more nuanced.
              Reuters
              5
              Two years later, Eperon still suffers the enmity of local pet owners.
              Wired
              6
              One can afford to forget enmity in the presence of the dead.
              Carry On: Letters in War-Time
              7
              It would come back in enmity later on and do irreparable damage.
              Funeral in Blue
              8
              Chagatai and Jochi talked briefly, their enmity put aside for the moment.
              Genghis: bones of the hills: a novel
              9
              The enmity between the urban and the bucolic has deep historical roots.
              The Belgian Curtain: Europe after Communism
              10
              Yet the air of the valley was heavy with fear and enmity.
              The lord of the rings
              11
              We also feel both a liking and an enmity for Level 6.
              Level 7
              12
              I was taken aback at the enmity with which both men spoke.
              The Guardian
              13
              Perhaps it felt affection toward him; perhaps, on the other hand, enmity.
              Flames
              14
              As to the English troops, we have no particular enmity against them.
              In the Irish Brigade: A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain
              15
              There is not now the old enmity between him and the Federalists.
              Lewis Rand
              16
              The enmity between them and the orthodox Mohammedans has been very severe.
              Modern Persia
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              United Kingdom
              Common
              United States of America
              Less common