Both Uses of
feud
in
Middlemarch
- Moreover, he was beginning to feel some zest for the growing though half-suppressed feud between him and the other medical men, which was likely to become more manifest, now that Bulstrode's method of managing the new hospital was about to be declared; and there were various inspiriting signs that his non-acceptance by some of Peacock's patients might be counterbalanced by the impression he had produced in other quarters.†
Chpt 3 *
- And now there's a mean, petty feud set up against the thing in the town, by certain persons who want to make it a failure."†
Chpt 5
Definition:
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(feud) bitter hostile argument between two parties -- typically long-standing between families or tribes with occasional incidents of violenceeditor's notes: Sometimes the term blood feud is used to reference a feud between families.