All 3 Uses of
conflict
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- Thinking it all over now and preparing for a fresh conflict, he was suddenly aware that he was trembling—and he felt a rush of indignation at the thought that he was trembling with fear at facing that hateful Porfiry Petrovitch.†
Chpt 4.5 *conflict = struggle or disagreement
- His face was almost distorted from fatigue, exposure, the inward conflict that had lasted for twenty-four hours.†
Chpt 6.7
- He recalled all the inward conflict of the preceding months.†
Chpt 6.7
Definition:
a struggle or disagreement
in various senses, including:
- a serious disagreement -- as in "political conflict"
- the tension from two opposing ideas or feelings -- as in "I'm conflicted about where I should go to college."
- a violent fight or war -- as in "the Israeli-Palestinian conflict"
- an idiom that refers to tension between responsibilities to different entities -- "conflict of interest"