All 3 Uses of
amity
in
Atlas Shrugged
- It had been followed by a small cocktail party in a private room of the bar built like a cellar on the roof of a skyscraper, an informal party given by him, James Taggart, for the directors of a recently formed company, The Interneighborly Amity and Development Corporation, of which Orren Boyle was president and a slender, graceful, overactive man from Chile was treasurer, a man whose name was Señor Mario Martinez, but whom Taggart was tempted, by some resemblance of spirit, to call Señor Cuffy Meigs.
Chpt 3.4amity = friendly relations
- It had not been necessary to mention, since they all knew it, that the Interneighborly Amity and Development Corporation had an exclusive contract to operate, on a twenty-year "managerial lease," all the industrial properties of the People's States of the Southern Hemisphere.
Chpt 3.4
- He reminded himself that he would sell his d'Anconia Copper stock, which had never rallied fully after its crash of last year, and he would purchase shares of the Inter-neighborly Amity and Development Corporation, as agreed with his friends, which would bring him a fortune.
Chpt 3.4 *
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.