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Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class VI. Words Relating to the Sentient and Moral Powers
Section III. Sympathetic Affections
1. Social Affections

889. Enmity.

   NOUN:ENMITY, hostility, antagonism; unfriendliness &c. adj.; discord [See Discord]; bitterness, rancor; heartburning; animosity [See Resentment]; malevolence [See Malevolence].
  alienation, estrangement; dislike [See Dislike]; aversion, hate [See Hate].
   VERB:BE UNFRIENDLY &c. adj.; keep -, hold- at arm’s length; be at loggerheads; bear malice [See Malevolence]; fall out; take umbrage [See Resentment]; harden the heart, alienate, estrange.
   ADJECTIVE:UNFRIENDLY, inimical, hostile; at enmity, at variance, at daggers drawn, at open war with; up in arms against; in bad odor with.
  on bad terms, not on speaking terms; cool, cold, cold-hearted; estranged, alienated, disaffected, irreconcilable.
   QUOTATION:To be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.—Coleridge