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amityn.Etymology: < Anglo-Norman amistee, Anglo-Norman and Middle French amité, amisté, variants of amitié , amistié (French amitié ) friendship, friendly relations, a friendship (11th cent. in Old French as amistet ), (chiefly in plural) sign or expression of friendship, salutation (14th cent.) < an unattested post-classical Latin form *amīcitāt- , *amīcitās , alteration (with change of inflection; compare -ty suffix1) of classical Latin amīcitia friendship, friendly relations, especially between states or rulers, affinity, accord < amīcus friend (see amyke n.) + -itia -ice suffix1. 1. the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > friendship society > society and the community > dissent > absence of dissension or peace > [noun] > amity or good terms 1437 (Electronic ed.) Parl. Jan. 1437 §37. m. 2 Certeins merchauntz of Leyden, Amsterdamme..and Seland, beyng of þe special amiste of oure soverain lorde, come þider to have boght a gret part of þe said wolles and wolfell. 1477 J. Paston in (2004) I. 498 The preseruacion off þe amyteys taken late..wyth Fraunce. a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara (1537) f. 12v Suche..as shulde be admytted to strayte amytyes. 1597 W. Cecil in H. Ellis (1824) III. 44 The auncient amitie between Spain and him. 1631 T. Heywood (1641) 45 Two brothers..knit and joyned together in amitie. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis v, in tr. Virgil 348 This Pledge of ancient Amity receive, Which to my second Sire I justly give. 1759 W. Robertson I. iv. 290 She declared her resolution to live in perpetual amity with England. 1816 J. Austen I. xii. 207 All the unceremoniousness of perfect amity . View more context for this quotation 1868 M. E. Grant Duff 101 Treaties of amity and commerce. 1922 S. Lewis ix. 122 The amity of the dinner was destroyed by the nagging of the Swansons. 2002 E. Peters (2003) 488 Tourists, convalescent officers, Egyptian workmen, and the permanent residents of Luxor mingled in amity. the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > friendly relation(s) 1566 W. Painter I. xxxi. f. 62 Courtiers occupied themselfes, in..makinge of Mariages, amities, and attonementes. 1605 F. Bacon ii. sig. Ii4v All leagues and Amities consist of mutuall Intelligence, and mutuall Offices. View more context for this quotation 1703 at Abdilchair The King resolved to..give him his Daughter in Marriage; hoping thereby to contract a lasting Amity with the Precopensian Tartar. 1827 B. Disraeli V. viii. i. 232 A political sacrifice, by which enraged Governments are appeased..and ancient amities confirmed. 1900 P. S. Reinsch v. iii. 360 There is in the world a growing realization of a basis of common interests upon which international amities may rest. 2011 R. S. Westman xvii. 442/1 Reducing all friendships to a single, instrumental dimension..unnecessarily obscures and oversimplifies the character of Galileo's intellectual amities. 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart II. liii. f. lxii/2 Ye duke..wrote agayne letters wt grete salutacyons & amytyes to ye kyng of Portyngale. 1776 H. Walpole 17 Sept. (1904) IX. 413 General Howe, who, like his family, never wastes a monosyllable, does not think such little amities necessary. 1931 Feb. 5/1 People..anxious to exchange amities with denizens of other lands. 2003 (Nexis) 11 July 8 The first-act [number] ‘Poems’, an exchange of amities between embryonic friends. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1437 |