单词 | faction fight |
释义 | > as lemmasfaction fight b. attributive. Designating or relating to conflict or violence arising between factions (esp. in sense 2d), as faction fight, faction fighter, faction fighting, etc. ΚΠ 1830 National Mag. 1 565 If a faction fight had once commenced between them, it might be kept up in fairs and markets for centuries to come. 1831 J. Banim & M. Banim Chaunt of Cholera 43 (note) The facts of these verses occurred..at the time when efforts were made to put an end to the faction-fighting of the Irish peasantry. 1846 Parl. Gazetteer Ireland, 1844–5 III. 229/2 [Shillelagh] having furnished many thousand most approved sticks to brawling and riotous faction-fighters. 1880Faction fight [see sense 2d(b)]. ?1948 A. W. Hoernle in H. Tracey Lalela Zulu: 100 Zulu Lyrics p. viii Faction fighting is not ‘warfare’ as we know it, but it is to the Zulu a kind of national sport. 1983 Sowetan (Johannesburg) 12 Sept. 2 Police are working on a new strategy to curb the rising number of ‘faction’ killings at Soweto's hostels..after the killing of a ‘faction’ gunman who earlier shot two people. 1990 Independent on Sunday 18 Feb. 13/8 The rural Zulus [are] often driven to the squatter camps in the townships by overcrowding or faction fights in the countryside. 2001 New Internationalist Nov. 17/2 The Soviet Union withdrew in 1989 and, in the faction-fighting that followed, much of the country [sc. Afghanistan] that hadn't already been destroyed was flattened. < as lemmas |
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