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Synonyms for strife

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Synonyms for strife

a state of open, prolonged fighting

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Synonyms for strife

lack of agreement or harmony

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But do you show your great might and unconquerable strength, and face the Titans in bitter strife; for remember our friendly kindness, and from what sufferings you are come back to the light from your cruel bondage under misty gloom through our counsels.'
And so now with fixed purpose and deliberate counsel we will aid your power in dreadful strife and will fight against the Titans in hard battle.'
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And she felt that beside the love that bound them together there had grown up between them some evil spirit of strife, which she could not exorcise from his, and still less from her own heart.
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The trumpet-call of strife is seldom borne on their wings to the watchful ears of men on the decks of ships.
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Profit-sharing could be successful only in isolated cases in the midst of a system of industrial strife; for if all labor and all capital shared profits, the same conditions would obtain as did obtain when there was no profit- sharing.
God had stirred the nations to strife. It was a time of visions and miracles, while seers and prophetesses were legion.
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In this strife I have almost repulsed and crushed my better angel into a demon.
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It was an age of fierce and passionate party strife--strife between Whig and Tory which almost amounted to civil war, but instead of using swords and guns the men who took part in the strife used pen and ink.
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