All 33 Uses
amity
in
Divergent, by Veronica Roth
(Edited)
- I could tell him I've been worried for weeks about what the aptitude test will tell me—Abnegation, Candor, Erudite, Amity, or Dauntless?
p. 5.9amity = in this novel, the group of people to whom it is most important to be friendly and live in peaceOutside of this novel, amity is not capitalized and refers to "a state of friendly relations".
- A group of Amity girls in yellow and red sit in a circle on the cafeteria floor, playing some kind of hand-slapping game involving a rhyming song.
p. 9.2 *amity = in this novel, the group of people to whom it is most important to be friendly and live in peace
- Two from Dauntless, two from Erudite, two from Amity, two from Candor, and then: "From Abnegation: Susan Black and Beatrice Prior."
p. 10.8
- If you had shown an automatic distaste for the knife and selected the cheese, the simulation would have led you to a different scenario that confirmed your aptitude for Amity.
p. 21.3
- That didn't happen, which is why Amity is out.
p. 21.3
- The elevator is crowded, so my father volunteers to give a cluster of Amity our place.
p. 39.1
- I stand between Caleb and Danielle Pohler, an Amity girl with rosy cheeks and a yellow dress.
p. 40.1
- Each one contains a substance that represents each faction: gray stones for Abnegation, water for Erudite, earth for Amity, lit coals for Dauntless, and glass for Candor.
p. 40.7
- Those who blamed aggression formed Amity.
p. 42.7
- The Amity exchange smiles.
p. 42.7
- Abnegation has fulfilled our need for selfless leaders in government; Candor has provided us with trustworthy and sound leaders in law; Erudite has supplied us with intelligent teachers and researchers; Amity has given us understanding counselors and caretakers; and Dauntless provides us with protection from threats both within and without.
p. 43.5
- The first girl to choose decides on Amity, the same faction from which she came.
p. 44.5
- When the last girl makes her choice—Amity—it's time to leave.
p. 48.3
- "Well, I'm not doing it," says an Amity boy behind me.
p. 54.2
- He has olive skin and wears a brown shirt—he is the only transfer from Amity.
p. 54.3
- The Amity boy shakes his head.
p. 54.5
- All the initiates except the Amity boy made it onto the roof, with varying levels of success.
p. 55.3
- Of those, I am the only Abnegation transfer, and there are no Amity transfers.
p. 62.3
- Candor's real problem is with Amity.
p. 81.3
- These days, the only artists are in Amity.
p. 89.1
- At the hospital, an Amity woman in a yellow shirt with clean fingernails took my mother's blood pressure and set her bone with a smile.
p. 113.8
- When I came here with my family as a child, we rode in a bus on that road and beyond, to Amity's farms, where we spent the day picking tomatoes and sweating through our shirts.
p. 124.5
- You may be able to go on patrols beyond Amity's farms, but—
p. 124.7
- The back of the truck is open, and a few other Amity sit among the stacks of crates.
p. 126.2
- "Beatrice?" an Amity boy says.
p. 126.3
- One of the Amity in the back of the truck stands.
p. 126.3
- Only in Amity do people hug each other in greeting.
p. 126.8
- For a few seconds I look at the scales that represent Candor, the eye that stands for Erudite, and the tree that symbolizes Amity.
p. 405.4
- Our best option is to go to the Amity compound in the hope that they'll take us in.
p. 452.1
- "Then we'll have to decide who goes and who continues on to Amity," he says.
p. 454.4
- I watch the others run in the opposite direction—toward safety, toward Amity—for a few seconds, and then I turn away, toward the city, toward the war.
p. 455.7
- "If we take the train in the opposite direction, out of the city instead of in, we can get to Amity headquarters," I say.
p. 483.9
- The kindness of Amity will comfort us for a while, though we can't stay there forever.
p. 485.6amity = in this novel, the group of people to whom it is most important to be friendly and live in peaceeditor's notes: Outside of this novel, amity is not capitalized and refers to "a state of friendly relations".
Definitions:
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(1)
(amity) a state of friendly relations
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Amity is also often used as a proper noun as in the name, Amity Harbor.