All 6 Uses
enmity
in
Medea, by Euripides - (translated by: T.A. Buckley)
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- For she is violent; he who engages with her in enmity will not with ease at least sing the song of victory.†
*enmity = hatred
- And will Jason endure to see his children suffer this, even although he is at enmity with their mother?†
- Better is it for me now to incur enmity from you, than softened by your words afterward greatly to lament it.†
- For thus it is: I am in enmity with my friends at home; but those whom I ought not to injure, by obliging thee, I make my enemies.†
- and why am I in enmity with the princes of the land and with my husband, who is acting in the most advantageous manner for us, having married a princess, and begetting brothers to my children?†
- Since it appeareth fit to the royal family to send me from this country, for me also this appears best, I know it well, that I might not dwell here, a check either to thee or to the princes of the land; for I seem to be an object of enmity to the house; I indeed will set out from this land in flight; but to the end that the children may be brought up by thy hand, entreat Creon that they may not leave this land.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(enmity) hatred toward someone or between people -- typically long-lastingSynonym Comparison (if you're into word choice):
"Enmity" is used in place of synonyms like "hatred" to indicate a feeling that runs deeper and is typically longer in the making. - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)