Both Uses of
amity
in
King Lear
- I promise you, the effects he writes of succeed unhappily: as of unnaturalness between the child and the parent; death, dearth, dissolutions of ancient amities; divisions in state, menaces and maledictions against king and nobles; needless diffidences, banishment of friends, dissipation of cohorts, nuptial breaches, and I know not what.†
Scene 1.2
- How in one house Should many people, under two commands, Hold amity?†
Scene 2.4 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(amity) a state of friendly relations
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Amity is also often used as a proper noun as in the name, Amity Harbor.