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Casus belli

noun
1.
An event used to justify starting a war.






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... of the majority of such differences between members of the tribe and that one of them would finally lose interest and wander off to prosecute some other line of endeavor. Such might have been the end of it had the CASUS BELLI been other than it was; but Teeka was flattered at the attention that was being drawn to her and by the fact that these two young bulls were contemplating battle on her account. Such a thing never before had occurred ...
— Jungle Tales of Tarzan • Edgar Rice Burroughs



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