Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—A

Animosity

means animation, spirit, as the fire of a horse, called in Latin equi animositas. Its present exclusive use in a bad sense is an instance of the tendency which words originally neutral have to assume a bad meaning. (Compare churl, villain.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Animula
Animals, cries of
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