Meanings
- rareuncountableThe quality of being inamicable.
The later movement of European Enlightenment also stressed the proven merits of every individual, rather than the supposed inamicability of his race.
1974, “The Promise of Emancipation: Toleration or Equality”, in The Jewish People: A Pictorial History, New York, N.Y.; Paris: Leon Amiel Publisher; Jerusalem: Keter Publishing House Jerusalem, →ISBN, page 99, column 12 more examples
Ancestral ties such as existed between Crows and Hidatsas contributed to the sharing of costume ideas. Inamicability, for example between the neighboring Blackfoot and Plains Cree tribes, slowed such an exchange.
1977, Ronald P[eter] Koch, “The People of the Plains”, in Dress Clothing of the Plains Indians (The Civilization of the American Indian Series; 140), Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, page 4These stress the inamicability, the pain inflicted by nature upon man, or rather, nature’s capacity to prevent human beings from working their will upon nature.
1985, Jon Christopher Crocker, “Raka and Aroe: The Production of ‘Souls’”, in Vital Souls: Bororo Cosmology, Natural Symbolism, and Shamanism (The Anthropology of Form and Meaning), Tucson, Ariz.: University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, part I (The Conceptual and Social Contexts of Affliction), chapter 1 (Vital Humors), page 60Synonyms: unamicability
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe quality of being inamicable.
Origin
From in- + amicability, after inamicable. Piecewise doublet of inamiability, inimicability, unamiability, and unamicability.
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