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amity|ˈæmɪtɪ|
Forms: 5–6 amytie, -tye, -te, -tey, amite, 6 amytee, -itee, -itye, 6–7 amitie, 6– amity.
[a. Fr. amitié, 13th c. amistié, amisté, 11th c. amistet:—pop. L. *amīcitāt-em (= L. amīcitiam), f. amīc-us friend; cf. mendīcitāt-em f. mendīc-us: see -ty.]
Friendship, friendliness; friendly relations; especially of a public character between states or individuals. a. sing.
1450in 3rd Rep. Comm. Hist. MSS. (1872) 279/2 The Frenshemen..enlarge their amite and their aliage to suche as were beste. 1474Caxton Chesse 80 Amytie is founded vpon honeste. 1483― Gold. Leg. 137/4 Why wilt thou not abyde in our amyte? 1597Cecil in Ellis Orig. Lett. i. 234 III. 44 The auncient amitie betweene Spain and him. 1631Heywood England's Eliz. (1641) 45 Two brothers..knit and joyned together in amitie. 1759Robertson Hist. Scotl. I. iv. 290 She declared her resolution to live in perpetual amity with England. 1782Priestley Corr. Chr. I. Pref. 8 Hostility..will give place to the most perfect amity. 1868G. Duff Pol. Surv. 101 Treaties of amity and commerce.
b. pl. arch.
1477Sir J. Paston in Lett. 786 III. 173 The preservacion off the amyteys taken late..with Fraunce. 1534Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. viii. E iv b/1 Suche..as should be admytted to strait amitees. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. ix. §2 (1873) 130 All leagues and amities consist of mutual intelligence and mutual offices. 1739W. Melmoth Fitzosb. Lett. (1763) 43 Those little jealousies and rivalships that shoot up in the paths of common amities. 1815T. Jefferson Writ. (1830) IV. 264 The less we have to do with the amities or enmities of Europe, the better. 1826Disraeli Viv. Grey viii. i. 461 Ancient amities. |