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Definition
bitter hostile argument between two parties — typically long-standing between families or tribes with occasional incidents of violence
- What honour, and what love, shall I obtain, If I compose those fatal feuds again; Once more their minds in mutual ties engage, And, what my youth has owed, repay their age!Book 14 (41% in)
- I deem'd not Greece so dreadful, while engaged In mutual feuds her king and hero raged; Then, while we hoped our armies might prevail We boldly camp'd beside a thousand sail.Book 18 (44% in)
There are no more uses of "feud" in The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Pope).
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