Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: amity
IPA transcription: ['æmɪti]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: amity, cordiality
    Meaning: a cordial disposition
Usage examples
  • A little way off to the left was the great bunker which, primarily, was the cause of their present amity.
  • This one had been a shade more acute than most, and the drop into amity again was a shade more precipitous.
  • Soon after leaving the church a rustic swain hailed me and asked for a match. The pipe and the Virginia weed--they mean amity the world over.
  • The moment that this pretension is abandoned, the sword will drop from our grasp, and we shall be ready to enter into treaties of amity and commerce that can not but be mutually beneficial.
  • It sometimes, indeed, happens, that some supervenient cause of discord may overpower this original amity; but it seems to me more frequently thrown away with levity, or lost by negligence, than destroyed by injury or violence.