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noun

Strife n.

The act of striving; earnest endeavor. (Archaic)

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."

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."

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

... judge! But ye—who know the mighty goal we seek, Who have seen him sap our courage, hour by hour, Till God Himself almost appeared a dream Behind his technicalities and doubts Of aught he could not touch or handle: ye Who have seen him stir up jealousy and strife Between our seamen and our gentlemen, Even as the world stirs up continual strife, Bidding the man forget he is a man With God's own patent of nobility; Ye who have seen him strike this last sharp blow— Sharper than any enemy ...

— Collected Poems - Volume One (of 2) • Alfred Noyes

... quarrel. Men carried turnips in their hats in mockery of the German elector who had threatened to make St. James's Park a turnip-field, and were prepared to fight lustily for their bucolic emblem. Women fanned the strife, wore white roses for the King {136} over the water, or Sweet William in compliment to the "immortal memory" of William of Nassau. Sometimes even women were roughly treated. On one occasion we read of a serving-girl, who had made known the hiding-place of a Jacobite, being attacked and nearly ...

— A History of the Four Georges, Volume I (of 4) • Justin McCarthy

... Behold! they come—those sainted forms, Unshaken through the strife of storms; Heaven's winter cloud hangs coldly down, And earth puts on its rudest frown; But colder, ruder, was the hand That drove them from their own fair land; Their own fair land—Refinement's chosen seat, Art's trophied dwelling, Learning's green retreat; By Valor guarded ...

— Ten Great Events in History • James Johonnot

... my business to estimate what would happen in Kerry if a few thousand rabid Orangemen were plumped down among the present inhabitants; but according to existing circumstances creeds are not torn to tatters nor religion disfigured by strife ...

— The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent • S.M. Hussey

... eye, thin cruel and compressed lips added nothing to the recommendation of the rosary (juzu) and pilgrim's staff (shakujo[u]) grasped in hand; and indeed the whole air of the man savoured of the weariness of debauch, and of strife with things of this world rather than of battles against its temptations. Yet the wayfarer was greeted with kindness, his tale of woe heard. His own quarters—a flourishing tribute to the mercies of the eleven-faced Kwannon, with a side glance at Amida—had gone up in smoke the day ...

— Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House) - Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 (of 2) • James S. De Benneville

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