Enmity vs. Feud — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Enmity and Feud
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Enmity
Deep-seated, often mutual hatred.
Feud
A feud , referred to in more extreme cases as a blood feud, vendetta, faida, clan war, gang war, or private war, is a long-running argument or fight, often between social groups of people, especially families or clans. Feuds begin because one party (correctly or incorrectly) perceives itself to have been attacked, insulted, wronged, or otherwise injured by another.
Enmity
A feeling or state of hatred or animosity
"More than almost any public man I have ever met, he has avoided exciting personal enmities" (Theodore Roosevelt).
Feud
A prolonged and bitter quarrel or dispute
His long-standing feud with Universal Pictures
Enmity
The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition.
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Feud
Be engaged in a prolonged and bitter quarrel or dispute
Hoover feuded with the CIA for decades
Enmity
A state or feeling of opposition, hostility, hatred or animosity.
Feud
A bitter, often prolonged quarrel or state of enmity, especially such a state of hostilities between two families or clans.
Enmity
The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition.
No ground of enmity between us known.
Feud
See fee.
Enmity
A state of opposition; hostility.
The friendship of the world is enmity with God.
Feud
To carry on or perpetuate a bitter quarrel or state of enmity.
Enmity
A state of deep-seated ill-will
Feud
A state of long-standing mutual hostility.
Enmity
The feeling of a hostile person;
He could no longer contain his hostility
Feud
(professional wrestling) A staged rivalry between wrestlers.
Feud
(obsolete) A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.
Feud
An estate granted to a vassal by a feudal lord in exchange for service.
Feud
(intransitive) To carry on a feud.
The two men began to feud after one of them got a job promotion and the other thought he was more qualified.
Feud
A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.
Feud
A contention or quarrel; especially, an inveterate strife between families, clans, or parties; deadly hatred; contention satisfied only by bloodshed.
Mutual feuds and battles betwixt their several tribes and kindreds.
Feud
A stipendiary estate in land, held of a superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable thing of his lord, to use the same and take the profits thereof hereditarily, rendering to his superior such duties and services as belong to military tenure, etc., the property of the soil always remaining in the lord or superior; a fief; a fee.
Feud
A bitter quarrel between two parties
Feud
Carry out a feud;
The two professors have been feuding for years
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