animosity
/æn.əˈmɑ.sɪ.ti/ noun C2- Violent hatred leading to active opposition; active enmity; energetic dislike. · There was open animosity between the two rival teams.· Despite years of conflict, she felt no animosity toward him.
Plural animosities
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“But why on earth should you be pursued with such animosity?”
Upon issuing forth from his subterranean retreat at the expiration of five minutes, he found the abbé seated upon a wooden stool, leaning his elbow on a table, while Margotin, whose animosity seemed appeased by the unusual command of the traveller for refreshments, had crept up to him, and had established himself very comfortably between his knees, his long, skinny neck resting on his lap, while his dim eye was fixed earnestly on the traveller’s face.
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