Both Uses of
amity
in
Gulliver's Travels
- The envoy further added, "that in order to maintain the peace and amity between both empires, his master expected that his brother of Blefuscu would give orders to have me sent back to Lilliput, bound hand and foot, to be punished as a traitor."†
Chpt 1 *
- They are strangers to bridle or saddle; they live in great amity with me and friendship to each other.†
Chpt 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.