What's the difference between amity and peace?

Amity


Definition:

  • (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.

Peace


Definition:

  • (v.) A state of quiet or tranquillity; freedom from disturbance or agitation; calm; repose
  • (v.) Exemption from, or cessation of, war with public enemies.
  • (v.) Public quiet, order, and contentment in obedience to law.
  • (v.) Exemption from, or subjection of, agitating passions; tranquillity of mind or conscience.
  • (v.) Reconciliation; agreement after variance; harmony; concord.
  • (v. t. & i.) To make or become quiet; to be silent; to stop.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In January 2011, the Nobel peace prize laureate was admitted to a Johannesburg hospital for what officials initially described as tests but what turned out to be an acute respiratory infection .
  • (2) We will never give up our hope for peace,” added Netanyahu.
  • (3) He voiced support for refugees, trade unions, council housing, peace, international law and human rights.
  • (4) However, he has also insisted that North Korea live up to its own commitments, adhere to its international obligations and deal peacefully with its neighbours.
  • (5) A number of asylum seekers detained in the family camp on Nauru have begun peaceful protests over conditions at the centre.
  • (6) "We have peace in Sierra Leone now, and Tony Blair made a huge contribution to that," said Warrant Officer Abu Bakerr Kamara.
  • (7) The prime minister insisted, however, that he and other world leaders were not being stubborn over demands that the Syrian leader, President Bashar al-Assad, step down at the end of the peace process.
  • (8) Journalists should never be a propaganda arm of any government – not in peace and never in war.
  • (9) These days, all Russian 15-year-olds study War and Peace as part of their national curriculum.
  • (10) Sadly, the Jewish fanatic who assassinated Rabin in 1995 achieved his broader aim of derailing the peace train.
  • (11) Judge John Burgess told the men that their intention was “to do great harm in a peaceful community”.
  • (12) She also welcomed the wider context of Mohammed's release: "I do believe that this time there will be peace," she said, referring to the talks due to open on Wednesday.
  • (13) Two days after Michael Morpurgo, author of War Horse , published a beautiful essay calling for this year's First World War commemorations to " honour those who died " and "celebrate the peace we now share", Michael Gove has delivered the government's response.
  • (14) • Mubarak becomes a major mediator in the Arab-Israeli peace process, remaining a consistent US ally bolstered by billions of dollars in American aid.
  • (15) Laryngo-tracheal traumatisms are not frequent at peace time.
  • (16) Our later measures – parliament's power to declare peace and war, MPs to be subject to a right to recall, an end to the royal prerogative, an elected Lords – were about a 21st-century democracy, with citizenship to be founded on a new bill of rights and responsibilities and, in time, a written constitution.
  • (17) "What Russia is doing now in Ukraine threatens peace and security in Europe ," said Nato's secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
  • (18) He was the peaceful activist whose sudden disappearance into a phalanx of riot police on a Baltimore street sparked a viral panic.
  • (19) | Mary Dejevsky Read more Third, if that breakthrough can be delivered with good faith on all sides, that could potentially be the basis to revive the Kerry-Lavrov ceasefire , open humanitarian channels into Aleppo, and start the process of negotiating a lasting peace.
  • (20) Kerry, however, has called on Egypt to respect the right of peaceful protest, including pro-Morsi rallies.