Amity vs Malice - What's the difference?
amity | malice |
(formal, literary) friendship. The cooperative and supportive relationship between people, or animals. In this sense, the term connotes a relationship which involves mutual knowledge, esteem, affection, and respect along with a degree of rendering service to friends in times of need or crisis.
* 1922': 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 . — Thomas Hardy, 'Welcome Home,' in ''Lyrics Late and Earlier, 1922
Mutual understanding and a peaceful relationship, especially between nations; peace; accord.
Intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way. Desire to take pleasure in another's misfortune.
* 1981 , , Valis , ISBN 0-553-20594-3, page 67:
As nouns the difference between amity and malice
is that amity is (formal|literary) friendship the cooperative and supportive relationship between people, or animals in this sense, the term connotes a relationship which involves mutual knowledge, esteem, affection, and respect along with a degree of rendering service to friends in times of need or crisis while malice is intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way desire to take pleasure in another's misfortune.amity
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(amities)Synonyms
* friendliness * friendshipAntonyms
* enmity * hostility * enemyshipExternal links
* * *malice
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(-)- not only was there no gratitude (which he could psychologically handle) but downright malice showed itself instead.