What is "enmities"

Usage examples of "enmities".

Manfred, king of Naples, continued those enmities against the church which had been begun by his ancestors, and kept the pope, Urban IV.

To remove the cause of those enmities which had been observed to arise from judicial decisions, they provided two judges from some other state,--one called captain of the people, the other podesta, or provost,--whose duty it was to decide in cases, whether civil or criminal, which occurred among the people.

And if this peace had not been disturbed by internal enmities there would have been no cause of apprehension whatever, for the city had nothing to fear either from the empire or from those citizens whom political reasons kept from their homes, and was in condition to meet all the states of Italy with her own forces.

But the evil fortune of the city, and the defective nature of her laws, gave rise to enmities between the family of the Albizzi and that of the Ricci, which divided her citizens as completely as those of the Buondelmonti and the Uberti, or the Donati and the Cerchi had formerly done.

What indomitable resolution need be apprehended from the people whom so many and such recent enmities have disunited?

Thus, from the war between John of Anjou and King Ferrando, originated those serious enmities and hatreds which ensued between Ferrando and the Florentines, particularly the house of Medici.

Cosmo de' Medici, noticing the riches and rank of this family, had given his granddaughter, Bianca, to Guglielmo, hoping by this marriage to unite the houses, and obviate those enmities and dissensions so frequently occasioned by jealousy.

For all that every warchief had bowed to the single causethe liberation of their godslongstanding enmities persisted.

The Barghast had been none too pleased by the Mask Council's attempted usurpationold enmities and mistrust had flared to life once more.

That his protest struck a responsive chord in the hearts of so many was due in part to the fact that the enmities growing out of the war, and intensified during the years that followed, had grown increasingly burdensome.

Americans and Englishmen, when they become acquainted with the Balkans, feel an astonished contempt when they study the mutual enmities of Bulgarians and Serbs, or Hungarians and Rumanians.

It is evident to them that these enmities are absurd and that the belief of each little nation in its own superiority has no objective basis.

Among peasants in the same village, workmen of the same trade and shopkeepers in the same quarter, there is always envy, enmities and spites.