as in friendship
kindly concern, interest, or support
a youth club fostering amity among the city's many and diverse ethnic groups
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The Next Generation is its assertion that intergalactic amity can exist only in an atmosphere of stifling formality.
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Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
This initial amity was very short-lived: The prosperous and generous Native American tribes of Southern California were conquered by Spanish settlers, then enslaved by imperious theologians to launch a mission-building campaign that stretched from San Diego to San Francisco.
—Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2023
The vernacular liturgy, the modern angular church architecture, the emphasis on amity with other Christian churches and other faiths that came after Vatican II were all a good fit with the populous, influential, flexible, and prosperous American Church.
—Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
Many have celebrated this newfound amity as the end of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
—Kenneth M. Pollack, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022
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Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
This initial amity was very short-lived: The prosperous and generous Native American tribes of Southern California were conquered by Spanish settlers, then enslaved by imperious theologians to launch a mission-building campaign that stretched from San Diego to San Francisco.
—Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2023
The vernacular liturgy, the modern angular church architecture, the emphasis on amity with other Christian churches and other faiths that came after Vatican II were all a good fit with the populous, influential, flexible, and prosperous American Church.
—Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
Many have celebrated this newfound amity as the end of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
—Kenneth M. Pollack, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022
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“Amity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/amity. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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