Meanings
- rareuncountableThe quality of being inimicable.
In normal preparation for communion, Christians committed themselves to reconciliation with, and forgiveness of, anyone to whom they lived in a state of wrath or inimicability.
2011, Michael Ostling, “Stealing the Sacred”, in Between the Devil and the Host: Imagining Witchcraft in Early Modern Poland (The Past & Present Book Series), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, part II (Religion), page 1622 more examples
But upon going through the Work, he confeſſed that he ſoon became reconciled to me, was ſenſible of a ſtrong Sympathy of feeling coming upon him every Chapter, and ſaid to himſelf, “This Man, ſurely, hath no Inimicability in his Nature.”
1770, Henry [pseudonym; Richard Griffith], Frances [pseudonym; Elizabeth Griffith], “Letter DXCVII. Henry to Frances.”, in A Series of Genuine Letters, between Henry and Frances, volume V, London: […] W. Richardson and L. Urquhart, […], →OCLC, page 83[Edward] Sexby made some telling points concerning the soldiers, who had risked their lives in the war and were now told that they had no rights in the kingdom. [Oliver] Cromwell however showed his general inimicability to Sexby’s manner and attack by observing briskly that such sentiments did “savour so much of will”, and once more he proposed a committee to work out a compromise.
1973, Antonia Fraser, “The game at cards”, in Cromwell, Our Chief of Men, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, →ISBN, part 2 (War and Peace), page 218
Origin
From inimic(able) + -ability. Piecewise doublet of inamiability, inamicability, unamiability, and unamicability.
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