Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Animosity

Animosity ({not transcribed}) , noun

[French animosité, from Latin animositas. See Animose, Animate, transitive verb]

1.
Mere spiritedness or courage. [Obsolete] — Skelton
Such as give some proof of animosity, audacity, and execution, those she [the crocodile] loveth. — Holland
2.
Violent hatred leading to active opposition; active enmity; energetic dislike. — Macaulay
Such [writings] as naturally conduce to inflame hatreds and make enmities irreconcilable. — Spectator
[These] factions... never suspended their animosities till they ruined that unhappy government. — Hume