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Webster 1913 Edition
Strifeful
Strife′ful
,Adj.
Contentious; discordant.
The ape was
strifeful
and ambitious. Spenser.
Webster 1828 Edition
Strifeful
STRIFEFUL
,Adj.
The ape was strifeful and ambitious and the fox guileful and most covetous.
Definition 2024
strifeful
strifeful
English
Alternative forms
- strifull [16th c.]
Adjective
strifeful (comparative more strifeful, superlative most strifeful)
- Full of strife; quarrelsome, polemic, contentious.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.ii:
- But strifull minde, and diuerse qualitee / Drew them in parts, and each made others foe [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.ii: