Both Uses
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- After meeting Oz Cardinal, one came away convinced that he was a little boy with a heart as big and giving as God could bestow on lowly, conflicted mortals.†
Chpt 1 *conflicted = tension from opposing ideas or feelings
- It was a conflicted, troubling situation for the girl.†
Chpt 20
Definitions:
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(1)
(conflict) a struggle or disagreementin 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"
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)