(n.) Friendship, in a general sense, between individuals, societies, or nations; friendly relations; good understanding; as, a treaty of amity and commerce; the amity of the Whigs and Tories.
Example Sentences:
(1) This sense of belonging has nothing to do with fiscal or governmental union and everything to do with proximity, amity and difference.
(2) Morton said as far as she knew no other organisation had picked up the service Amity was losing, although that had happened with other organisations.
(3) In Further Tales of the City , published in 1982, Maupin maps amity between gay men and straight men – terra incognita still.
(4) Initially, the Tahrir Square demonstrations were a model of sectarian amity, with Muslim and Christian demonstrators protecting each other from the violence of the police and the regime's thugs.
(5) Johnson told Indian students at Amity University, south of Delhi, that he was pressing the government to set up an educational exports commission to promote Britain's universities abroad and help secure their future.
(6) But they are bound by steel hoops of amity compared to the Tories.
(7) The attempt to promote international amity appears to be an independent one.
(8) "Consort with all religions with amity and concord, that they may inhale from you the sweet fragrance of God," reads the inscription.
(9) Always warms my heart when you realise how many nice, normal, caring people there are out there – about 500,000 people walking along in complete amity.
(10) And young people in the territory – particularly Aboriginal young people – are the most vulnerable … and yet this is the sector we seem to be cutting the most.” The Darwin-based Amity Community Services was one of the latest organisations to receive a knockback, for its volatile substance and alcohol and drug outreach service.
(11) But Kiir, like his opposite number in Khartoum, President Omar al-Bashir, is acting stubborn, drawing on decades of mutual distrust, bad faith and bloody-mindedness while casting aside more recent pledges of amity.