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Warfare   /wˈɔrfˌɛr/   Listen
noun
Warfare  n.  
1.
Military service; military life; contest carried on by enemies; hostilities; war. "The Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel." "This day from battle rest; Faithful hath been your warfare."
2.
Contest; struggle. "The weapons of our warfare are not carnal."


verb
Warfare  v. i.  To lead a military life; to carry on continual wars.





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"Warfare" Quotes from Famous Books



... wondered how it was that he could have waited so long for her since the first night of their meeting, and he just distinguished the fact that he lived with the pulses of the minutes, much as she did, only more fierily. The ceaseless warfare called politics must have been the distraction: he forgot any other of another kind. He was a bridegroom for whom the rosed Alps rolled out, a panorama of illimitable felicity. And there were certain things he must overcome before he could name his bride his own, so that ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... thought Dalyrimple, there aren't any resting-places; a man who's a strong criminal is after the weak criminals as well, so it's all guerilla warfare over here. ...
— Flappers and Philosophers • F. Scott Fitzgerald
... the joyful and triumphant party, with their outward intimacy and their inward warfare of passions and desires, rolled on toward "Mystery Number Two," which was duly christened "Cornish," and celebrated in champagne furnished ...
— Aladdin & Co. - A Romance of Yankee Magic • Herbert Quick
... exploits, which to be believed, must not be adequately described, and who revenged, by an act of unrivalled glory, the long endurance of sufferings, and indignities hateful to the magnanimous spirit of modern warfare, and unknown to it, until displayed within the walls of a ...
— The Stranger in France • John Carr
... Testament miracles, forbids that they should be passed over in silence like similar phenomena elsewhere narrated. But, in the present state of historical science, the arguing against miracles is, as Colet remarked of his friend Erasmus's warfare against the Thomists and Scotists of Cambridge, "a contest more necessary than glorious or difficult." To be satisfactorily established, a miracle needs at least to be recorded by an eyewitness; and the mental attainments of the witness need to be thoroughly known besides. Unless he has a clear ...
— The Unseen World and Other Essays • John Fiske


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