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/ˌænəmˈɑsəti/ Listen

noun

Animosity n. (pl. animosities)

Mere spiritedness or courage. (Obs.) "Such as give some proof of animosity, audacity, and execution, those she (the crocodile) loveth."

Violent hatred leading to active opposition; active enmity; energetic dislike.

Synonyms: Enmity; hatred; opposition. Animosity, Enmity. Enmity be dormant or concealed; animosity is active enmity, inflamed by collision and mutual injury between opposing parties. The animosities which were continually springing up among the clans in Scotland kept that kingdom in a state of turmoil and bloodshed for successive ages. The animosities which have been engendered among Christian sects have always been the reproach of the church. "Such (writings) as naturally conduce to inflame hatreds and make enmities irreconcilable." "(These) factions... never suspended their animosities till they ruined that unhappy government."

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"Animosity" Quotes from Famous Books

... or even a total failure to respond at all. [Footnote: Jung, Clark Lectures.] Obviously our public opinion is in intermittent contact with complexes of all sorts; with ambition and economic interest, personal animosity, racial prejudice, class feeling and what not. They distort our reading, our thinking, our talking and our behavior in ...

— Public Opinion • Walter Lippmann

... own authority" (La Liberte). It is only necessary to say that no such "Act" ever had any existence, save in the fertile brains of French journalists, and it is now brought forward apparently with a view to excite animosity towards the Malagasy in the minds of ...

— The Contemporary Review, January 1883 - Vol 43, No. 1 • Various

... The animosity between the inhabitants of English and Danish race had, from these repeated injuries, risen to a great height, when Ethelred (1002), from a policy incident to weak princes, embraced the cruel resolution of massacring the latter throughout all his dominions. Secret orders were despatched ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 5 • Various

... a "turn-up" nose and long ringlets. Why does a little woman with a turn-up nose always wear her hair in ringlets? Is it that she wishes to resemble a King Charles's spaniel? And why are our sex so apt to cherish feelings of animosity towards those who are younger and better-looking than themselves? While I ask myself these questions I was suddenly accosted by a lady who had been some time in conversation with my chaperon, and from whom, I saw by Aunt Deborah's countenance, she was anxious to make her escape. ...

— Kate Coventry - An Autobiography • G. J. Whyte-Melville

... functions and nature of his Master, and only the second in obeying his Master's commands, then always, with a uniformity more remarkable than is obtained in any other historical phenomena, there have followed dissension, animosity, and in later ages bloodshed. Christianity, as a principle of life, has been the most powerful check upon the passions of mankind. Christianity as a speculative system of opinion has converted them into monsters ...

— The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) • James Anthony Froude

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