The phrase "enmity for" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means a strong feeling of hostility or animosity towards someone or something. Example: After years of rivalry and enmity for each other, the two companies finally decided to put their differences aside and collaborate on a new project.
But still the enmity for Castro persisted.
"Neither can convincingly justify his enmity for the other," says an analyst.
Their enmity for Hagel goes back to his two terms in the Senate.
Long after his fighting days were over, Frazier retained his enmity for Ali.
Supposedly Hamilton's enmity for Burr traces to that event, though the evidence is sketchy.
Old friend of Smith's says his bitter and undying political enmity for Hearst born that afternoon.
Two leaders who were on opposing sides in the 1998-1999 war that left thousands of Kosovar civilians killed, tens of thousands of homes burned and destroyed, more than a million people expelled and displaced – and which ended only after Nato intervened – would have suddenly conquered their hatreds and enmities for the sake of a better future for their people.
The Black September militia linked to Fatah was responsible for the Munich operation, which earned the Palestinians enduring enmity and for many years made Arafat a pariah in the West.
Those remarks solidified the enmity felt for a woman whom the American press had optimistically described in the mid-1950s as her country's Joan of Arc.
Their enmity simmered for years, not helped by Cruyff's observations that Van Gaal has "one or two screws loose in his head", but it reached new depths in 2011, when Cruyff took the extraordinary step of going to court to prevent Ajax from appointing Van Gaal as their new chief executive.
The fact that Panjabi and Margulies couldn't overcome their rumored enmity even for a day of filming made the parting -- likely the last time these two characters ever see each other, since Kalinda is now officially on the lam -- even sadder.
