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 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.
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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
The space station was meant to be a marvel of peaceful post-Cold War amity between Moscow and Washington, drawing Russia into the community of international collaboration and preventing Russian rocket engineers from selling expertise to countries like North Korea seeking to build better missiles.
—New York Times, 30 Mar. 2022
In the end, amity won out between the two painters.
—Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
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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
The space station was meant to be a marvel of peaceful post-Cold War amity between Moscow and Washington, drawing Russia into the community of international collaboration and preventing Russian rocket engineers from selling expertise to countries like North Korea seeking to build better missiles.
—New York Times, 30 Mar. 2022
In the end, amity won out between the two painters.
—Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
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“Amity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/amity. Accessed 19 Feb. 2025.
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