confliction

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[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. )

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Example Sentences

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confliction

"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 Albert Bigelow Paine

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

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

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

From Pygmalion's Spectacles by Stanley Grauman Weinbaum

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 Carveth Read

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 Emma Lazarus

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