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animosity

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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 ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "vigor," from Middle French animosité (14c.) or directly from Latin animositatem (nominative animositas ) "boldness, vehemence," from animosus "bold, spirited," from animus (see animus ). Sense of "hostile feeling" is first recorded c.1600, ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE personal ▪ But my rivalry with Tuffers will be purely professional because there is no personal animosity between us. ▪ It is the best phase for problem-solving, when personal animosities are minimal. EXAMPLES FROM ...

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.