Meaning of amity in English
(Definition of amity from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of amity
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Of course, close contact between different groups doesn't always build amity.
From The Atlantic
The traditional aims of amity and commerce seemed quaint and outdated in a world of superpower confrontation and containment.
From Foreign Policy
It is probably more accurate to describe current bilateral relations as tense -- which contain contrasting elements of amity, skepticism and rivalry.
Unfortunately, the amity of the1990s has given way to the fractiousness of the 21st century.
From Heritage.org
Perhaps inevitably, such amity has created the imprint of a family.
From Bloomberg
There was, this year of 2079, a thorough amity between all three of the inhabited planets.
From Project Gutenberg
And she deemed herself not undutiful, nor lacking in filial amity, for so doing.
From Project Gutenberg
His hope was to soothe and calm her, to part from her in amity and without giving her cause to deplore a loss of dignity.
From Project Gutenberg
The captain, however, had a boat lowered; which, pulling towards shore, and waving a white flag in token of amity, met with no resistance.
From Project Gutenberg
The little cottage in amity looked just as cozy and homelike as ever.
From Project Gutenberg
My sisters send their amities, and will write in a few days.
From Project Gutenberg
Where there is no amity between capital and labor there is never any justice; one or the other becomes a despot.
From Project Gutenberg
With us a treaty of peace means peace, and a treaty of amity means amity.
From Project Gutenberg
One might have presumed that to the rule of amity which apparently surrounded him, there was no exception--and so the mystery remained unsolved.
From Project Gutenberg
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