confliction

American  

[kuhn-flik-shuhn] / kənˈflɪk ʃən /

noun

1. the act or state of conflicting or clashing; disagreement.

   Various records are in confliction as to exactly how the mighty warrior looked, but most agree that he stood head and shoulders above his fellow soldiers.

2. the state of being full of opposing or conflicting emotions or impulses.

   He would even run off and abandon his family in an instant to save a friend, though probably not without some guilt and confliction.

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Etymology

Origin of confliction

First recorded in 1690–1700; from Latin cōnflīctiōn-, stem of cōnflīctiō “a striking together, collision”; see conflict ( def. ), -ion ( def. )

Example Sentences

According to Hamilton, it is "a recognition of the relation of congruence or confliction in which two concepts stand to each other."

From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Read, Carveth

By reason of this one source of authority, there is, therefore, no confliction of creeds.

From Life in a Thousand Worlds by Harris, W. S. (William Shuler)

For this is impossible in Paracosma; it is a confliction with the laws.

From Pygmalion's Spectacles by Weinbaum, Stanley Grauman

But I, whom even thyself didst stoop to teach, May poise the scales, weigh this with that confliction, Yea, sift the hid grain motive from the dense, Dusty, eye-blinding chaff of consequence.

From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations by Lazarus, Emma

"Well, I should judge you might divide up your affections on those two without any serious confliction of sentiments."

From The Mystery of Evelin Delorme A Hypnotic Story by Paine, Albert Bigelow