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Inemité, -itie, Inemeté, -etie, n. Also: -emytie, -ittie. [ME. enemité (14th c.). Cf. Inimité n, Inamité n.] Enmity. c1460 Alex. (Taym.) 720.
I wat na caus of fede nor inemitie That suld betuix ws be 1525 Acts II. 298/1.
Persounis that thai hait and has inemytie aganis thaim 1533 Bell. Livy I. 154/2.
To sell the gudis of Porsena with maist inemyté 1545 Blackfriars Perth 203.
The inemite and deidlie feid standing betwixt our said Sheriff of Perth … and … Patrik Lord Gray 1570 Maitl. F. xxx. 26.
Flatrie preuales, treuth makis inemitie a1570-86 Maitland Ib. xcvi. 27.
Inemete is ane rycht wickit seid Ib. cviii. 35.
So lang as lastis this inemetie c1615 Chron. Kings 23.
The grit innemittie that Maximianus … buir to him