Noun: amity
| Singular | amity |
| Plural | amities |
Sample Sentences
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To my native place ¶ Bent upon returning, ¶ Bosom all day burning ¶ To be where my race ¶ Well were known, 'twas much with me ¶ There to dwell in amity. [1922, Thomas Hardy, “Welcome Home”, in Lyrics Late and Earlier:]
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Near-synonyms: accord, concord, harmony, peace, peacefulness
Nouns inflected like amity
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English amite, from Old French amisté, amitie, amistiet, from Vulgar Latin *amīcitātem, derived from Latin amīcus (“friend”), from amō (“love”). See: Middle English Nouns '
amite', Latin Nouns '
amīcus'.