About The Word Strife
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Strife
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What's The Definition Of Strife?
[n] bitter conflict; heated often violent dissension
[n] lack of agreement or harmony Synonyms | Synonyms for Strife: discord Related Terms | Find terms related to Strife: See Also | battle | conflict | countercurrent | discord | discordance | disorder | struggle Strife In Webster's Dictionary \Strife\, n. [OF. estrif. See {Strive}.]
1. The act of striving; earnest endeavor. [Archaic] --Shak.
2. Exertion or contention for superiority; contest of
emulation, either by intellectual or physical efforts.
Doting about questions and strifes of words. --1
Tim. vi. 4.
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.
Syn: Contest; struggle; quarrel. See {Contention}.
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