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Conflict   /kˈɑnflɪkt/  /kənflˈɪkt/   Listen
noun
Conflict  n.  
1.
A striking or dashing together; violent collision; as, a conflict of elements or waves.
2.
A strife for the mastery; hostile contest; battle; struggle; fighting. "As soon as he (Atterbury) was himself again, he became eager for action and conflict." "An irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces."
Conflict of laws, that branch of jurisprudence which deals with individual litigation claimed to be subject to the conflicting laws of two or more states or nations; often used as synonymous with Private international law.
Synonyms: Contest; collision; struggle; combat; strife; contention; battle; fight; encounter. See Contest.


verb
Conflict  v. i.  (past & past part. conflicted; pres. part. conflicting)  
1.
To strike or dash together; to meet in violent collision; to collide. "Fire and water conflicting together."
2.
To maintain a conflict; to contend; to engage in strife or opposition; to struggle. "A man would be content to... conflict with great difficulties, in hopes of a mighty reward."
3.
To be in opposition; to be contradictory. "The laws of the United States and of the individual States may, in some cases, conflict with each other."
Synonyms: To fight; contend; contest; resist; struggle; combat; strive; battle.





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"Conflict" Quotes from Famous Books



... however, remains to identify the resting-place of the great Sir James. The effigy, of dark stone, is crossed-legged, marking his character as one who had died after performing the pilgrimage to the Holy Sepulchre, and in actual conflict with the infidels of Spain; and the introduction of the HEART, adopted as an addition to the old arms of Douglas, in consequence of the knight's fulfilment of Bruce's dying injunction, appears, when taken in ...
— Waverley Volume XII • Sir Walter Scott
... trading steamers, and made their way by small boat or bullock hackery to the Cadjan City. These fellows have few equals as divers, but the administrative officers of the camp always fear that they will come into conflict with the police or launch a war in the name of Mohammed against the Hindus or Cingalese. Consequently, only a limited number are allowed to ...
— East of Suez - Ceylon, India, China and Japan • Frederic Courtland Penfield
... But all the dread conflict is o'er; Lo! cloud after cloud rolls away; And heaven, serene as before, Breaks forth in the splendour of day! And all the sweet landscape around, Emerged from the ocean of night, With groves, woods, and villages crowned, Astonish and fill ...
— Cottage Poems • Patrick Bronte
... that he had never regarded the matter in that light before," she went on gaily, encouraged by my laughter, "but he braced himself for the conflict, and said 'I wonder that you didn't stay a little longer while you were about it. Milton and Ben Jonson were still alive; Bacon's Novum Organum was just coming out; and in thirty or forty years you could have had L'Allegro, ...
— Penelope's Experiences in Scotland • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... now face is the threat of a class conflict. If capitalism insists upon the policy of outraging the saving aspiration of the American workman to raise his standard of comfort and leisure, every element of class conflict will strengthen ...
— War of the Classes • Jack London


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