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a state of friendly relations

amity = a state of friendly relations

amity = a state of friendly relations

That in alliance, amity, and oaths,
Shakespeare, William -- King Henry VI, Part 1
For nearly half a century after the arrival of the English the red men showed themselves generally inclined to peace and amity.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel -- Grandfather's Chair
The kindness of Amity will comfort us for a while, though we can't stay there forever.
Veronica Roth -- Divergent

amity = the group of people to whom it is most important to be friendly and live in peace

amity = people to whom it is most important to be friendly and live in peace

There may as well be amity and life
'Tween snow and fire as treason and my love.
William Shakespeare -- The Merchant of Venice

amity = friendly relations

How in one house
Should many people, under two commands,
Hold amity?
William Shakespeare -- King Lear

amity = a state of friendly relations

To hold you in perpetual amity, To make you brothers
William Shakespeare -- Antony and Cleopatra

amity = a state of friendly relations

It drew maps with avenues a hundred yards wide and thought seriously of preserving the half-ruined Museum of Science and Industry more or less as it was, as a monument to the disaster, and naming it the Institute of International Amity.
John Hersey -- Hiroshima

amity = a state of friendly relations

They will be governed by mutual interest, and will cultivate a spirit of mutual amity and concord.
Hamilton, Alexander -- Federalist Papers Authored by Alexander Hamilton
In sign of league and amity with thee.
Shakespeare, William -- King Richard III
If not amity, at least neutrality must obtain.
London, Jack -- White Fang
What is so excellent as strict relations of amity, when they spring from this deep root?
Emerson, Ralph Waldo -- Essays, Second Series
Let in that amity which you have made;
Shakespeare, William -- King John
The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.
Shakespeare, William -- History of Troilus and Cressida
When all had smoked, it was considered that an assurance of good faith and amity had been interchanged.
Irving, Washington -- Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains
The proffered amity of such a friend?
Sophocles -- Oedipus At Colonus
Amity had existed between him and Steward, for they had sat at table, and drunk together.
London, Jack -- Michael, Brother of Jerry
And away they would go, their voices, still conversing with excessive amity, being heard moving all round the harbour.
Conrad, Joseph -- The Mirror of the Sea

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