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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Strife \Strife\, n. [OF. estrif. See Strive.]
The act of striving; earnest endeavor. [Archaic]
--Shak.-
Exertion or contention for superiority; contest of emulation, either by intellectual or physical efforts.
Doting about questions and strifes of words.
--1 Tim. vi. 4.Thus gods contended -- noble strife Who most should ease the wants of life.
--Congreve. -
Altercation; violent contention; fight; battle.
Twenty of them fought in this black strife.
--Shak.These vows, thus granted, raised a strife above Betwixt the god of war and queen of love.
--Dryden. -
That which is contended against; occasion of contest. [Obs.] ``Lamenting her unlucky strife.''
--Spenser.Syn: Contest; struggle; quarrel. See Contention.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, "quarrel, fight, discord," from Old French estrif "fight, battle, combat, conflict; torment, distress; dispute, quarrel," variant of estrit "quarrel, dispute, impetuosity," probably from Frankish *strid "strife, combat" or another Germanic source (compare Old High German strit "quarrel, dispute"), related to Old High German stritan "to fight;" see stride (v.).
Wiktionary
n. conflict, sometimes violent, usually brief or limited in scope.
WordNet
n. lack of agreement or harmony [syn: discord]
bitter conflict; heated often violent dissension
Wikipedia
Strife is an American hardcore punk band from Thousand Oaks, California, but now primarily based out of Los Angeles, California. They formed in 1991.
Strife may refer to:
In mythology:
- Eris (mythology), in Greek mythology the goddess of discord, whose name means 'strife'
- Bellona (goddess), Roman counterpart of Eris, and a war goddess
- Enyalius, a son of Eris and god of strife
Strife is a multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) video game developed by S2 Games. This is S2 Games' second MOBA game aimed to a more casual player base than Heroes of Newerth, most notably incorporating various gameplay elements that focus on heavily reducing player toxicity and introducing persistent mechanics outside of the arena, including Pets and Crafting. The game uses an engine called Kodiak which is based on the Heroes of Newerth (K2 Engine) with some improvements on lighting and physics.
Strife is a three-act play by the English writer John Galsworthy. It was his third play, and the most successful of the three. It was produced in 1909 in London at the Duke of York's Theatre, and in New York at the New Theatre. In the play, there is a prolonged unofficial strike at a factory; as the trade union and the company directors attempt to resolve the affair, which is causing hardship among the workers' families, there is a confrontation between the company chairman and the leader of the strike.
Strife (also known as Strife: Quest for the Sigil or Strife: Trust No One) is a first-person shooter role-playing video game developed by Rogue Entertainment. It was released in May 1996 in North America by Velocity Inc., and in Europe by Studio 3DO. The shareware version was released on February 23, 1996, while the full version was released on May 31, 1996. It was the last commercially released standalone PC game to utilize the id Tech 1 engine from id Software. The plot takes place in a world taken over by a religious organization known as "The Order"; the protagonist, an unnamed mercenary (sometimes referred to as Strifeguy), becomes a member of the resistance movement which aims to topple the Order's oppressive rule.
Strife added some role-playing game elements to the classic first-person shooter formula, such as allowing players to talk to other characters in the game's world or improve the protagonist's abilities. Contemporary reviews praised these innovations and the story, but also criticized the quality of the graphics and the obsolete engine. Years after its release, the game was retrospectively considered to have been underappreciated in its day, and described as a precursor to games such as Deus Ex.
An enhanced version of the game, Strife: Veteran Edition (also dubbed The Original Strife: Veteran Edition) was developed and published by Night Dive Studios and released on Steam on December 12, 2014.
Usage examples of "strife".
Their echoes talk with its eternal waves, Which, from the depths whose jagged caverns breed Their unreposing strife, it lifts and heaves,-- Till through a chasm of hills they roll, and feed A river deep, which flies with smooth but arrowy speed.
There are common barrators among doctors as there are among lawyers, --stirrers up of strife under one pretext and another, but in reality because they like it.
The problem was, Skullport was all too apt to be crawling with this sort of thing: the kind of strife Mirt and Durnan would get caught up in .
Of action, and the banner in the strife: Yea, of your very weakness once you drew The strength that sounds the wells, outflies the lark: Wrapped in a robe of flame were you!
You are, Sir, a presumptuous, selfconceited pedagogue, a stirrer up of strife and commotion in church, in state, in families, and communities.
And as though the strife here were not already hard enough, behold from many corners of the land come needy emigrants, prospectless among their own people, fearing the dark season which has so often meant for them the end of wages and of food, tempted hither by thought that in the shadow of palaces work and charity are both more plentiful.
Two Quatrains I Unity As eons of incalculable strife Are in the vision of one moment caught, So are the common, concrete things of life Divinely shadowed on the walls of Thought.
Did they remember the sacrifices they had made then, to War and Strife, sackers of cities?
The quiet creatures who escape mishap Bear likeness to pure growths of the green sap: A picture of the settled peace desired By cowards shunning strife or strivers tired.
Or patience, mortal of peace, Compressing the surgent strife In a heart laid open, not mailed, To the last blank hour of the rack, When struck the dividing knife: When the hand that never had failed In its pressure to mine hung slack.
To tak unto hissen a wife, To ease his mind ov all its strife, An be his comfort all throo life-- An, pray, what should prevent her?
King, in consideration of the old friendship which subsisted between your father and himself, in youthful days, before political strifes divided them, has granted that the estate yet unappropriated shall be restored to you, on two conditions, one of which is already fulfilled--your marriage with an English Protestant gentleman, and the other, which doubtless you will fulfil, residence in this country, and obedience to the laws.
Seeing she lives, and of her joy of life Creatively has given us blood and breath For endless war and never wound unhealed, The gloomy Wherefore of our battle-field Solves in the Spirit, wrought of her through strife To read her own and trust her down to death.
If there is one question which the enlightened and liberal have the habit of deriding and holding up as a dreadful example of barren dogma and senseless sectarian strife, it is this Athanasian question of the Co-Eternity of the Divine Son.
He had still not told his father or his elder brother of his venture to Bethabara the past summer because he knew it would merely create strife.