different between enmity vs rancour

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old French enemisté, ennemistié, from Late Latin, Vulgar Latin *inim?cit?s, *inim?cit?tem, from Latin inim?cus (“enemy”); cognates: French inimitié, Portuguese inimizade, Spanish enemistad.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??n.m?.t?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??n.m?.ti?/

Noun

enmity (countable and uncountable, plural enmities)

1. The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition.
   • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 242e.

     Some later Muses from Ionia and Sicily reckoned it safest to weave together both versions and say that that which is is both many and one, held together by both enmity and amity.

2. A state or feeling of opposition, hostility, hatred or animosity.

   • I merely repeat, remember always your duty of enmity towards Man and all his ways.

Quotations

Synonyms

Antonyms

• amity

Translations

References

• enmity in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• enmity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Notes:

English

Etymology

First attested as Middle English rancour in the early 13th century, from Old French rancor, from Latin rancor (“rancidity, grudge, rancor”), from *rance? (“be rotten or putrid, stink”), from which also English rancid.

Noun

rancour (countable and uncountable, plural rancours)

1. Britain and Canada spelling of rancor

References

• rancour in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• rankor, rauncour, rancor, rankowre, rancur, rankour

Etymology

From Old French rancor, from Latin rancor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ran?ku?r/, /?rankur/
• (Late ME) IPA^(key): /?rank?r/

Noun

rancour

1. Jealousy, ire, towards someone; rancour (also as a metaphorical figure)
2. (rare) Rancidity; something which smells vile.
3. (rare) A belief that one is engaging in wrongdoing.

Descendants

• English: rancour, rancor
• Scots: rancour

References

• “ranc?ur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-30.

Old French

Noun

rancour f (oblique plural rancours, nominative singular rancour, nominative plural rancours)

1. Late Anglo-Norman spelling of rancur

   il se douterent qe nous eussiens conceu vers eux rancour & indignacion