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noun obsolete That which is contended against occasion of contest.įrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

noun Altercation violent contention fight battle.

noun Exertion or contention for superiority contest of emulation, either by intellectual or physical efforts.

noun Archaic The act of striving earnest endeavor.

See battle, encounter.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English. A contention that is forcible, violent, exhausting, or attended with real or figurative convulsions or contortions, is a struggle. Such a rivalry, when definite in form and limited in time, is a contest: as, the contests of the Creek games. Contention often indicates the more continued and methodical effort, and hence is more often the word for rivalry in effort to possess something. These words agree in being very general, in having a good sense possible, and in seeming elevated or poetical when applied to the organized quarrels of war or to anything more than oral disputes.

noun Antagonistic contention contention characterized by anger or enmity discord conflict quarrel: as, strife of the elements.

noun Emulative contention or rivalry active struggle for superiority emulation.

noun A striving or effort to do one's best earnest attempt or endeavor.

noun Contention or competition between rivals.

noun Heated, often violent conflict or disagreement.

The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition. Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.Ĭivil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

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