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self-conflict

  • a word derived from conflict.
    conflict
    verb (used without object)
    to come into collision or disagreement; be contradictory, at variance, or in opposition; clash.

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But his self-conflict is what the Times reports resonates with viewers of a younger demographic.

From Fox News Sep. 29, 2021

Establish fixed principles of benevolence, justice, truthfulness, religious belief, and adhere steadfastly to them, despite the allurements of the world, the temptings of ambition, or weariness of self-conflict.

From The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews by Henry Lunettes

The force of his self-conflict took all the colour from his lips, all the light from his eyes.

From Sally of Missouri by Rose E. (Rose Emmet) Young

Keats seems to me to have been naturally a man of complex character, many-mooded, with a tendency to perverse self-conflict.

From Life of John Keats by William Michael Rossetti

Whoever will enter upon that process of self-wrestling and self-conflict which has been described, will come to a profound sense of the truth which our Lord taught in the words of the text.

From Sermons to the Natural Man by William G. T. (William Greenough Thayer) Shedd