Strife /(?)/

Strife

n.
  1. The act of striving; earnest endeavor. [Archaic]
  2. Exertion or contention for superiority; contest of emulation, either by intellectual or physical efforts.
    Doting about questions and strifes of words.
    — 1 Tim. vi. 4.
    Thus gods contended -- noble strife - Who most should ease the wants of life.
  3. Altercation; violent contention; fight; battle.
    Twenty of them fought in this black strife.
    These vows, thus granted, raised a strife above Betwixt the god of war and queen of love.
  4. That which is contended against; occasion of contest. [Obs.]