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Warring   /wˈɔrɪŋ/   Listen
verb
War  v. t.  
1.
To make war upon; to fight. (R.) "To war the Scot, and borders to defend."
2.
To carry on, as a contest; to wage. (R.) "That thou... mightest war a good warfare."


War  v. i.  (past & past part. warred; pres. part. warring)  
1.
To make war; to invade or attack a state or nation with force of arms; to carry on hostilities; to be in a state by violence. "Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it." "Why should I war without the walls of Troy?" "Our countrymen were warring on that day!"
2.
To contend; to strive violently; to fight. "Lusts which war against the soul."





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"Warring" Quotes from Famous Books



... to such elemental questions. It is unworthy of the wise and illustrious senators of this great empire to take heed of such a vulgar consideration as commercial morality. This is a free country, wherein every man may freely live, providing for himself, and warring upon his kind. Such throughout is the tone and the spirit of the proposed measure for the "better regulation" of the City of London. If this is better, it is devoutly to be hoped that no future ministry will bring forward a Bill for the "best regulation." Every additional step in this direction ...
— The Corporation of London: Its Rights and Privileges • William Ferneley Allen
... in terror of an evil that may never come, to quit a good which is present and assured? Shall we scatter our gold upon the earth, ere we have set eyes upon the Scots? Those who faint at the thought of warring when they are out for war, what manner of men are they to be thought in the battle? Shall we be a derision to our foes, we who were their terror? Shall we take scorn instead of glory? The Briton will marvel ...
— The Danish History, Books I-IX • Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Learned")
... one April morning, in his retirement near Pisa, unconscious under the double shock of invasion and civil war. Though he recovered later, his horizon remained dark. The patriot suffered to see party spirit and warring factions rending the nation he had so often called the pilot of humanity’s bark, which seemed now to be going straight on the rocks. “Finis Galliæ,” murmured the historian, who to the end lived and died with his ...
— The Ways of Men • Eliot Gregory
... her illness, and that I could not find decompounds and superlatives enough to express myself. You never tell me a syllable from my sovereign lady the princess: has she forgot me? What is become of Prince Beauvau?(840) is he warring against us? Shall I write to Mr. Conway to be very civil to him for my sake, if he is taken prisoner? We expect another battle every day. Broglio has joined Noailles, and Prince Charles is on the Neckar. Noailles says, "Qu'il a fait une folie, mais qu'il est pr'et 'a la r'eparer." There is ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 1 • Horace Walpole
... for a Sagamore and an Algonquin, for he used the Iroquois term to designate the Holder of Heaven. The perfect courtesy of a Christian gentleman could go no further. And I thought of our trivial and petty and warring sects, and was silent ...
— The Hidden Children • Robert W. Chambers


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