Word

amity \AM-uh-tee\, noun:

Meaning

Friendship; friendly relations, especially between nations.

Examples

For at least the first two years of the war, as a Confederate soldier and writer, John Esten Cooke, phrased it, there were "pitched battles once or twice a year," in which the two sides spent all day killing each other, "and then relapsed into gentlemanly repose and amity."

--Stephen W. Sears, "Valor Couldn't Save Them," [1]New York Times, July 5, 1987

The precise nature of their relationship cannot now be uncovered, and might well have resisted analysis at the time; it remained a matter of mutual services and obligations, the filaments of which over the years created a network of amity and trust.

--Peter Ackroyd, [2]The Life of Thomas More

He regards Cordell Hull as the bright particular star of the Roosevelt Administration and heartily approves the Secretary of State's efforts to promote international amity and reciprocal trade.

--Cleveland Rodgers, "Robert Moses," [3]The Atlantic, February 1939

Extra

Amity comes from Old French-Medieval French amistié, amisté, ultimately from Latin amicus, "friendly, a friend," from amare, "to love."

Paragraph

Pakistan and India need to continue promoting amity amongst their people. The existing conditions, war, infiltration, terrorism is helping no one. Innocent people are getting killed. Life in Kashmir is so insecure. No one can benefit out of all this except for some selfish politicians. Even if Pakistan wants Kashmir to be its part, that gives no right to them to kill innocents. The terrorists don’t even spare small kids and women. They seem more like dacoits than freedom fighters which they claim to be. The recent efforts by Pakistan’s Gen. Musharraf and India’s Vajpayee to promote amity are noteworthy.