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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Animosity \An`i*mos"i*ty\, n.; pl. Animosities. [F. animosit['e], fr. L. animositas. See Animose, Animate, v. t.]
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Mere spiritedness or courage. [Obs.]
--Skelton.Such as give some proof of animosity, audacity, and execution, those she [the crocodile] loveth.
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Violent hatred leading to active opposition; active enmity; energetic dislike.
--Macaulay.Syn: Enmity; hatred; opposition. -- Animosity, Enmity. Enmity be dormant or concealed; animosity is active enmity, inflamed by collision and mutual injury between opposing parties. The animosities which were continually springing up among the clans in Scotland kept that kingdom in a state of turmoil and bloodshed for successive ages. The animosities which have been engendered among Christian sects have always been the reproach of the church.
Such [writings] as naturally conduce to inflame hatreds and make enmities irreconcilable.
--Spectator.[These] factions . . . never suspended their animosities till they ruined that unhappy government.
--Hume.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. Violent hatred leading to active opposition; active enmity; energetic dislike.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Animosity is the third studio album by Sevendust, released on November 13, 2001 through TVT Records. The album appeared on the Billboard 200, remained there for thirteen weeks and peaked at 28 on December 1, 2001. Animosity was certified gold on March 11, 2002 through the Recording Industry Association of America.
Sevendust released five variations of the album. Two variations were released in the United States with thirteen tracks, one version with explicit lyrics and the other with censored lyrics. Another explicit lyric version was released in the United States with a bonus track, and another censored version was released with two bonus tracks. The China release featured fifteen tracks. Five singles were released from the album, four of which appeared on the mainstream and modern Billboard charts.
"T.O.A.B." (Tits On A Boar) was featured in the computer animation Galerians: Rion. " Angel's Son", originally released on Strait Up, a tribute album of Lynn Strait, former lead-singer of the band Snot. Strait died in a car accident on December 11, 1998, at the age of 30.
Animosity is the second studio album by American heavy metal band Corrosion of Conformity. Album cover art was done by the artist Pushead.
Animosity may refer to:
- Animosity America comic published on A Spiritual Successor to The Food of the Gods series was Film and Books.
- Animosity (band), an American death metal band formed in 2000
- Animosity (Corrosion of Conformity album), 1985
- Animosity (Sevendust album), 2001
- Animosity (The Deadweights album), 2002
- Animosity (The Berzerker album), 2007
- Animosity (film), a 2013 horror film
Animosity was an American death metal band from San Francisco, California, formed in 2000. The band released three studio albums, toured in United States, Europe and disbanded in 2009. The classic lineup of Animosity consisted of vocalist Leo Miller, guitarists Frank Costa and Chase Fraser, bassist Evan Brewer and drummer Navene Koperweis.
Animosity is the fourth album by the band The Berzerker released in 2007. As with the first and third albums, a drum machine was used on the drum parts.
Animosity is the sixth studio album from American punk rock band The Deadweights, released May 28, 2002 on Reprise Records. The album was the first from the band to criticize America's President George W. Bush.
Animosity is a 2013 horror thriller film written and directed by Brendan Steere. It had its world premiere on May 13, 2013, and stars Tracy Willet and Marcin Paluch as two newlyweds that discover a sinister presence in the woods.
Usage examples of "animosity".
Adams with an animosity not diminished by the lapse of years since his defection from their party, strong in a consciousness of their own standing before their fellow citizens, the thirteen notables responded with much acrimony to Mr.
In the midst of this zeal against popery and the pretender, they were suddenly adjourned by the command of the lord-lieutenant, and broke up in great animosity against that nobleman.
His animosity toward Malvin could have caused Alker to masquerade as the Mask, posing as Warrendale, to settle scores with Malvin.
Having no relations with Parisian society, and seeing in the department of the Aube no other husband for Cecile than the youthful Marquis de Cinq-Cygne, he was asking himself whether by the power of gold he could surmount the animosities which the revolution of July had roused between the royalists who were faithful to their principles, and their conquerors.
If there is any other cause of animosity between the tribes besides the matter of avenging the dead there will now be a pretty severe fight with spears.
Arab-versus-Persian religious and ethnic disputes, to a personal animosity between Saddam Husayn and Ayatollah Khomeini.
Yossarian that they bore him no animosity, they even assigned him to fly lead bombardier with McWatt in the first formation when they went back to Bologna the next day.
The speculation for this fall of the exchange had been made with equal imprudence and animosity by the house of Osy and Company The head of that house, a Dutch emigrant, who had been settled at Hamburg about six years, seized every opportunity of manifesting his hatred of France.
The duke of Lancaster, who espoused in second marriage the eldest daughter of Peter, inherited only the empty title of that sovereignty, and, by claiming the succession, increased the animosity of the new king of Castile against England.
The English were as yet so little inured to obedience under a regular government, that the death of almost every king, since the conquest, had been attended with disorders, and the council, reflecting on the recent civil wars, and on the animosities which naturally remain after these great convulsions, had reason to apprehend dangerous consequences from the absence of the son and successor of Henry.
I hope that in the future you and Timothy Jacoby can put aside your differences, however deep the animosity runs, because I might find it difficult to do business with two men who are at any moment likely to kill each other.
Back at the University old professor Novy had been one of their pet animosities.
I did not point out the oxymoronic reality that one does not meet an animal in person, nor did I mention my animosity toward the species.
Pamphlets and pasquinades were published on both sides of the dispute, which became the general topic of conversation in all assemblies, and people of all ranks espoused one or other party with as much warmth and animosity as had ever inflamed the whigs and tories, even at the most rancorous period of their opposition.
It occurred to me that with Dien Bien Phu so close, there might be some residual animosity toward the French.