blood feud

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Origin of blood feud

1
First recorded in 1855–60

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How to use blood feud in a sentence

  • The Athenian law was a civilised modification of the savage rule that the kindred of a slain man take up his blood-feud.

  • Three times the old blood-feud had broken into sporadic outbursts, and three men had been shot.

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  • A private venture might be fitted out—and there were many who had a blood-feud with Sharkey—but what could a private venture do?

British Dictionary definitions for blood feud

blood feud

noun
  1. a feud in which the members of hostile families or clans murder each other

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