Enmity vs Detestation - What's the difference?
enmity | detestation | Related terms |
The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition.
* 2005 , .
A state or feeling of opposition, hostility, hatred or animosity.
*
Hate coupled with disgust; abhorrence.
Something detested.
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=4
Enmity is a related term of detestation.
As nouns the difference between enmity and detestation
is that enmity is the quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition while detestation is hate coupled with disgust; abhorrence.enmity
English
Alternative forms
: * ** enemyte ** enemytee ** ennemite ** ennemyte * ** enemyte ** enemytee ** ennemite ** ennemyte ** enymyte * ** enemitie ** enemyte ** enemytee ** enimitie ** enimity ** ennemite ** ennemyte ** ennimitie ** inimity : * ** enmite ** enmitye ** enmyte ** enmytee * ** enmyte ** enmytee * ** enmity ** enmyte ** enmytee * ** enmityNoun
(enmities)- Some later Muses from Ionia and Sicily reckoned it safest to weave together both versions and say that that which is is both many and one, held together by both enmity and amity.
- I merely repeat, remember always your duty of enmity towards Man and all his ways.
Quotations
* *: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.Synonyms
* enemyship, hostility, enemyhood, antagonism, animosity, rancor, antipathy, animusAntonyms
* amityReferences
* * * Notes:detestation
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=“… No rogue e’er felt the halter draw, with a good opinion of the law, and perhaps my own detestation of the law arises from my having frequently broken it. …”}}