strife
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /stɹaɪf/
strife
- Striving; earnest endeavor; hard work.
- Exertion or contention for superiority, either by physical or intellectual means.
- 1595: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
- From forth the fatal loins of these two foesA pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;Whose misadventured piteous overthrowsDo with their death bury their parents' strife.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, 1 Timothy 6:4 ↗:
- Hee is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions, and ſtrifes of wordes,{{...}
- 1595: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
- Bitter conflict, sometimes violent.
- Synonyms: altercation, contention, discord, wrangle
- 1927-29, Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xvii ↗:
- A few observations about the interpretation of vows or pledges may not be out of place here. Interpretation of pledges has been a fruitful source of strife all the world over. No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purposes.
- (colloquial) A trouble of any kind.
- (obsolete) That which is contended against; occasion of contest.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene[https://books.google.co.in/books?id=S9tBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA311&lpg=PA311&dq=Lamenting+her+unlucky+strife.(Spenser)&source=bl&ots=oa_27GST5G&sig=ACfU3U1cj0ONcLwIVADGmRWDU0hMOvQjlw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjAkcq_5bTjAhUDOI8KHb3wAYYQ6AEwBHoECAcQAQ]:
- He ſpide lamenting her unlucky ſtrife,
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene[https://books.google.co.in/books?id=S9tBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA311&lpg=PA311&dq=Lamenting+her+unlucky+strife.(Spenser)&source=bl&ots=oa_27GST5G&sig=ACfU3U1cj0ONcLwIVADGmRWDU0hMOvQjlw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjAkcq_5bTjAhUDOI8KHb3wAYYQ6AEwBHoECAcQAQ]:
- French: différends m plural, dispute, querelle
- German: Streit
- Italian: disputa, tenzone
- Portuguese: conflito, disputa, discórdia
- Russian: раздо́р
- Spanish: disensión, altercado
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