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Strife   /straɪf/   Listen
noun
Strife  n.  
1.
The act of striving; earnest endeavor. (Archaic)
2.
Exertion or contention for superiority; contest of emulation, either by intellectual or physical efforts. "Doting about questions and strifes of words." "Thus gods contended noble strife - Who most should ease the wants of life."
3.
Altercation; violent contention; fight; battle. "Twenty of them fought in this black strife." "These vows, thus granted, raised a strife above Betwixt the god of war and queen of love."
4.
That which is contended against; occasion of contest. (Obs.) "Lamenting her unlucky strife."
Synonyms: Contest; struggle; quarrel. See Contention.






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"Strife" Quotes from Famous Books



... noble comrades, Patrizio Patrizzi and Ambrogio Piccolomini, he went forth into the wilderness. For the human soul, at strife with strange experience, betakes itself instinctively to solitude. Not only prophets of Israel, saints of the Thebaid, and founders of religions in the mystic East have done so; even the Greek Menander recognised, although he sneered at, the phenomenon. "The desert, they say, ...
— New Italian sketches • John Addington Symonds

... Brunswick, sent him a silver can of Einbech beer as a token of sympathy. Weary of strife, Luther drank it, saying, "As Duke Eric has remembered me this day, so may our Lord Christ remember ...
— Heroes of Modern Europe • Alice Birkhead

... truth-seeking persons has been so exclusively given to the details of sectarian dissensions, that the long strife, to the history of which these pages are devoted, is popularly but little known. Having tried to keep steadfastly in view the determination to write this work in an impartial spirit, to speak with respect of the contending parties, but never to conceal the truth, I commit it to the considerate ...
— History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science • John William Draper

... wall behind her curtain, Molly had listened in utter bewilderment to the sounds of strife in the passage outside. The half-heard conversation between the detectives had done nothing toward a solution of the mystery. Galer's voice she thought she recognized as one that she had heard before; but ...
— The Gem Collector • P. G. Wodehouse

... Very possibly! Not very much, but a little, a long time ago! He was very nice, sought after, perfectly dressed, most courteous, and after the first glance, he was a perfect lover for a fashionable woman. He had courted her for three months—the normal period, an honorable strife and sufficient resistances—and then she had consented, and with what emotion, what nervousness, what terrible, delightful fear, and that first meeting in his small, ground-floor bachelor rooms, in the Rue de Miromesnil. Her heart? What did her little ...
— The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume III (of 8) • Guy de Maupassant


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