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Definition
conflict or angry disagreement
- At the end of the meeting the Grand Master with irony and ill-will reproved Bezukhov for his vehemence and said it was not love of virtue alone, but also a love of strife that had moved him in the dispute.Book Six — 1808-10 (26% in)
- Instantly as at a word of command the expression of cheerful serenity on the faces of the French general, officers, and men changed to one of determined concentrated readiness for strife and suffering.Book Eleven — 1812 (67% in)
There are no more uses of "strife" in War and Peace.
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