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   Strife , n. [OF. estrif. See Strive.]
   The act of striving; earnest endeavor. [Archaic]
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   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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   Altercation; violent contention; fight; battle.
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   Twenty of them fought in this black strife.
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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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   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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