amity

<font size="-1" face="arial, helvetica"> <p> <strong> <font color="#000066">Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for November 18, 2021 is:</font> </strong> </p> <p> <strong>amity</strong> &#149; \AM-uh-tee\&nbsp; &#149; <em>noun</em><br /> <p><em>Amity</em> means "friendship" or "friendly relations between nations."</p> <p>// <em>Amity</em> between the nations was restored with the treaty.</p> <p><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/amity">See the entry ></a></p> </p> <p> <strong>Examples:</strong><br /> <p>"He's one of the few people … to have a deep, long-lasting <em>amity</em> with Russell, who guards his privacy and is fiercely dismissive of the social whirl." — Bruce Jenkins, <em>The San Francisco Chronicle</em>, 11 Sept. 2021</p> </p> <p> <strong>Did you know?</strong><br /> <p><em>Amity</em> comes from the Latin word for "friend," <em>amicus</em>, and is used especially for relationships between political leaders and nations in which goodwill is shown despite differences that might exist between the two parties. <em>Amicus</em> is also the root of the adjectives <em><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/amiable">amiable</a></em> and <em><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/amicable">amicable</a></em>.</p> <br /><br /> </p> </font>