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   Strife (?), n. [OF. estrif. See Strive.]
   1. The act of striving; earnest endeavor. [Archaic]  Shak.
   
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   2. Exertion or contention for superiority; contest of emulation, either by intellectual or physical efforts.
   
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   Doting about questions and strifes of words. 1 Tim. vi. 4.
   
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   Thus gods contended -- noble strife -
   
   Who most should ease the wants of life. Congreve.
   
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   3. Altercation; violent contention; fight; battle.
   
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   Twenty of them fought in this black strife. Shak.
   
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   These vows, thus granted, raised a strife above
   
   Betwixt the god of war and queen of love. Dryden.
   
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   4. That which is contended against; occasion of contest. [Obs.] “Lamenting her unlucky strife.”  Spenser.
   
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   Syn. -- Contest; struggle; quarrel. See Contention.
   
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