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internecine
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, "deadly, destructive," from Latin internecinus "very deadly, murderous, destructive," from internecare "kill or destroy," from inter (see inter- ) + necare "kill" (see noxious ). Considered in the OED as misinterpreted in Johnson's Dictionary [1755], ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 mutually destructive; most often applied to warfare. 2 Characterized by struggle within a group, usually applied to an ethnic or familial relationship.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Internecine \In`ter*ne"cine\, a. [L. internecinus deadly, murderous, fr. internecare to kill, to slaughter; inter between + necare to kill; akin to Gr. ? dead. See Necromancy .] Involving, or accompanied by, mutual slaughter; mutually destructive. Internecine ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. (of conflict) within a group or organization; "an internecine feud among proxy holders" characterized by bloodshed and carnage for both sides; "internecine war" [syn: mutually ruinous ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN warfare ▪ To try to cut down on internecine warfare , Mr Florio oversaw annual meetings at which he encouraged publishers to work together. ▪ Yet over the years internecine warfare has played an important role in ...
Usage examples of internecine.
These creations of Persian and Dialist architectonics can still be found embedded in several pieces of Internecine real estate.
Their long-standing feuds and internecine conflicts were largely why Castilla had asked him to organize Covert-One in the first place.
Although Fraxinus had been careful to direct the expedition in such a way as to avoid any companies of warriors the sentries espied, Andris had formed the impression that even they were entirely devoted to their own internecine squabbles.
CHAPTER XL INTERNECINE It must be conceived that there was some feeling of triumph at Plumstead Episcopi, when the wife of the rector returned home with her daughter, the bride elect of the Lord Dumbello.
The complex, then, that in which I was prisoner, I conjectured, might well have a clock similar to those used on Kur ships, and in the distant steel worlds, a clock doubtless once developed for use on their former world, doubtless long since destroyed in their internecine wars.
Their warrings, their strifes, their internecine intrigues and connivings were inevitable because of the tremendousness and capability -- and the limitations -- of their minds.
Their warrings, their strifes, their internecine intrigues and connivings were inevitable because of the tremendousness and capability—and the limitations—of their minds.
He had seen very early on that it was the concept behind which all of his countrymen-so long wrapped up in petty internecine warfare-could unite in order to return control of China to the hands of its native sons.
Destroyer of Vordarian's Pretendership, engineer of the peculiar victory of the third Cetagandan war, unshaken tiger-rider of Barrayar's murderous internecine politics for the past two decades.
UM #1: (And) he will rue the day he comes here and agitates, because the day he marches in the Saint-Whoever Parade is the day all the white folks put their goddamn internecine and intramural differences aside and unite.