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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

... unconsciously, in the habit of seeking her happiness, that it should fail him now in her evil hour, in the first flush of his new consciousness (ah, yes, there was beauty in that, and victory!), for any base personal thought or animosity against the man. He would have given her so easily his life; should he grudge her his reputation? The reputation of a man with one foot in the grave—what did it matter? And it all came about in ...

— A Comedy of Masks - A Novel • Ernest Dowson and Arthur Moore

... satisfaction the coming of "the meenister." Her satisfaction was shared by all the mothers and most of the fathers in the settlement; but by the others, and especially by that rollicking, roistering crew, the Company of the Noble Seven, the missionary's coming was viewed with varying degrees of animosity. It meant a limitation of freedom in their wildly reckless living. The "Permit" nights would now, to say the least, be subject to criticism; the Sunday wolf-hunts and horse-races, with their attendant delights, would now be pursued ...

— The Sky Pilot • Ralph Connor

... family are fugitive slave bill commissioners; one of them intellectually the ablest, perhaps morally the blindest, who so charged me with "Perjury," is the Honorable Judge who is to try me for a "Misdemeanor." Of course he is perfectly impartial, and has no animosity which seeks revenge,—the history of ...

— The Trial of Theodore Parker • Theodore Parker

... leeches of the Middle Ages purged the cerebellum! There, amidst all that great whirl and sturmbad (storm-bath), as the Germans say, of kingdoms and empires, and races and ages, how your mind enlarges beyond that little feverish animosity to John Styles, or that unfortunate prepossession of yours that all the world is interested in your grievances against Tom Stokes ...

— The Caxtons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... acquaintances on the opposite side. These recognitions were generally the occasion of many derisive and abusive epithets. In the Border States each party had a feeling of bitter hostility toward the other. Probably the animosity was ...

— Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field • Thomas W. Knox

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