Feud
[fjuːd] or [fjʊd]
Definition
(noun.) a bitter quarrel between two parties.
(verb.) carry out a feud; 'The two professors have been feuding for years'.
Edited by Charlene--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.
(n.) A contention or quarrel; especially, an inveterate strife between families, clans, or parties; deadly hatred; contention satisfied only by bloodshed.
(n.) A stipendiary estate in land, held of superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable thing of his lord, to use the same and take the profists thereof hereditarily, rendering to his superior such duties and services as belong to military tenure, etc., the property of the soil always remaining in the lord or superior; a fief; a fee.
Typist: Psyche
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Quarrel (especially between families or clans), broil, contention, clashing, dissension, jarring, rupture, bickering, falling out.[2]. Fee, fief.
Checked by Leon
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Fray, affray, broil, contention, enmity, antipathy, animosity, quarrel, strife,bitterness, dissension, hostility
ANT:Friendliness, sympathy, congeniality, clanship, pacification, reconciliation,sociality, neighborliness
Editor: Rodney
Definition
n. a fief or land held on condition of service.—adj. Feud′al pertaining to feuds or fiefs: belonging to feudalism.—n. Feudalisā′tion.—v.t. Feud′alise.—ns. Feud′alism the system during the Middle Ages by which vassals held lands from lords-superior on condition of military service; Feud′alist; Feudal′ity the state of being feudal: the feudal system.—adv. Feud′ally.—adjs. Feud′ary Feud′atory holding lands or power by a feudal tenure—also ns.—ns. Feud′ist a writer on feuds: one versed in the laws of feudal tenure.
n. a war waged by private individuals families or clans against one another on their own account: a bloody strife.—Right of feud the right to protect one's self and one's kinsmen and punish injuries.
Typist: Ludwig
Examples
- It was inevitable that Mecca and Medina should be in a state of rivalry and bickering feud. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Jane Osborne condoled with her sister Maria during this family feud. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The barriers between Europe and Asia set up by the religious feud of Christianity and Islam were lowered. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A secret feud of some years' standing was thus healed, and with a tacit reconciliation. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- And now there's a mean, petty feud set up against the thing in the town, by certain persons who want to make it a failure. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The feud of the Omayyads and the Abbasids was older than Islam; it had been going on before Muhammad was born. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is likely to be the means of healing a family feud. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- That there were feuds in the place, no one can deny. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- In the feuds of Florence, recorded by Machiavel, we find more to lament and less to praise. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- She lived on in a state of picturesque feudalism enlivened by blood feuds, in which about five per cent. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He was not only a professional peacemaker, but from practice a hater of all feuds and brawls. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The reader will note that the first paragraph sweeps away all plunder and blood feuds among the followers of Islam. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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