amenities
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It is in her character to support the old amities with loyalty.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 23, 1929
A few lines further on Edmund explains what kind of 'divisions' he expects to follow the eclipses—namely, 'between the child and the parent ... dissolutions of ancient amities; divisions in state,' etc.
From Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries by Naylor, Edward W. (Edward Woodall)
As for the rest, those we ordinarily call friendes and amities, are but acquaintances and familiarities, tied together by some occasion or commodities, by meanes whereof our mindes are entertained.
From Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian by Various
Every point has in it a conjunctive, as well as a disjunctive element: the former seems the one regarded here—only that some amities require more than a comma to separate them.
From The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark A Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623 by MacDonald, George
"On defend les amities particulières," she was told to her astonishment.
From The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes by Zangwill, Israel
Vocabulary lists containing amenities
The Call of the Wild
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