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. )

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Example Sentences

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confliction

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

Yet somewhere amid the mass of confliction there follows a thread of fact.

From The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise 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

We are far from being pessimistic, for we believe that life consists in confliction, but that confliction does not end in confliction, but in a new form of harmony.

From The Religion of the Samurai A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan by Kaiten Nukariya

But in the eyes of the law, or rather in the treatment of them by the Imperial court, there is no difference, nor is there any confliction of interest or sentiment existing between them.

From A Fantasy of Far Japan Summer Dream Dialogues by Baron Kencho Suyematsu

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