enmities in English

noun

1

the state or feeling of being actively opposed or hostile to someone or something.

enmity between Protestants and Catholics

synonyms: hostility, animosity, antagonism, friction, antipathy, animus, acrimony, bitterness, rancor, resentment, aversion, ill feeling, bad feeling, ill will, bad blood, hatred, hate, loathing, odium, malice, spite, spitefulness, venom, malevolence

noun

hostility, animosity, antagonism, friction, antipathy, animus, acrimony, bitterness, rancor, resentment, aversion, ill feeling, bad feeling, ill will, bad blood, hatred, hate, loathing, odium, malice, spite, spitefulness, venom, malevolence
hostility, ill will
hostility, antagonism

Use "enmities" in a sentence

1. Bitter historical enmities underlie the present violence.

2. We must blot out the personal enmities at this time.

3. Synonyms for Antagonisms include hostilities, antipathies, animuses, enmities, conflicts, contentions, friction, rivalries, bitternesses and discords

4. A·gaʹpe (love) transcends personal enmities, never allowing these to cause one to abandon right principles and to retaliate in kind.”

5. Such refusals or unspoken enmities are relatively rare: but they always point to the heart of a civilization.

6. Together with its stultifying racial enmities, this seems to have brought it to a halt, and placed it beyond history.

7. (Ephesians 2:3) Rather than joy and fine memories, such weddings often produce ‘loose conduct, enmities, jealousy, contentions, envies, revelries’ —the works of the flesh. —Galatians 5:19-21.

8. I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel.

9. “Works of the flesh,” such as “fornication, uncleanness, loose conduct, idolatry, practice of spiritism, enmities, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, contentions, divisions, sects, envies, drunken bouts, revelries, and things like these,” will be eliminated, because “those who practice such things will not inherit God’s kingdom.” —Galatians 5:19-21.

10. All this time while the benevolent land - owner was concerned with the welfare of his tenants , the artist in him was watching the life of the common people , their joys and sorrows , loves and enmities , their little deeds of patience and heroism , their capacity for sacrifice in the cause of family or religion and their cowardly acquiescence in injustice and oppression .

11. Theoretic differences and personal controversies lead to strife and Acrimonious enmities.; Duty and respect kept her silent to me, but to him she made an Acrimonious reply.; Every heart rejoices, every tongue blesses, every Acrimonious feeling is consigned to oblivion.; At the second meeting the disagreeable topics of the former evening were revived and discussed in a more Acrimonious spirit