strife
strife is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Exertion or contention for superiority; contest of emulation, either by intellectual or physical efforts. Doting about questions and strifes of words. 1 Tim. vi.
- 2.Thus gods contended -- noble strife -Who most should ease the wants of life. Congreve.
- 3.Altercation; violent contention; fight; battle. Twenty of them fought in this black strife. Shak. These vows, thus granted, raised a strife above Betwixt the god of war and queen of love. Dryden.
- 4.That which is contended against; occasion of contest. [Obs.] "Lamenting her unlucky strife." Spenser. See Contention.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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- What is exertion or contention for superiority; contest of emulation, either by intellectual or physical efforts. Doting about questions and strifes of words. 1 Tim. vi called?
- What is thus gods contended -- noble strife -Who most should ease the wants of life. Congreve called?
- What is altercation; violent contention; fight; battle. Twenty of them fought in this black strife. Shak. These vows, thus granted, raised a strife above Betwixt the god of war and queen of love. Dryden called?
- What is that which is contended against; occasion of contest. [Obs.] "Lamenting her unlucky strife." Spenser. See Contention called?
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- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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