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单词 internecinal
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internecinaladj.

Brit. /ˌɪntəˈniːsᵻnl/, U.S. /ˌɪn(t)ərˈnɛsᵻn(ə)l/, /ˌɪn(t)ərˈnisᵻn(ə)l/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin internecīnus , -al suffix1.
Etymology: < classical Latin internecīnus internecine adj. + -al suffix1.
Now rare.
= internecine adj.Frequently in internecinal war.
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society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [noun] > war to the death
internecine1642
war to the knife1812
internecinal war1829
internecion1848
jihad1880
1829 Times 28 Jan. 2/4 If the Greeks and Turks would have ceased from butchering each other, the expedition would never have sailed. The occupation..was thought essential to the extinction of the internecinal war, and was therefore undertaken.
1834 Q. Rev. Nov. 571 Allowing his discordant ministry to have squabbled on a few weeks or days longer, when they must have exploded with all the scandal and odium of internecinal hostility.
1862 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire VII. lx. 9 The Jews could not have maintained their internecinal war against Rome, had not their social system been very different.
1893 Logansport (Indiana) Daily Pharos 30 May It was..an internal war within our own borders; in some respects it was internecinal, consequently bloody, cruel and decisive, involving an appalling loss of life and property.
1989 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 28 Apr. 6/3 The death of a state, brought about by a legion of internal forces..tells an internecinal story of avarice, internal decay.., and blatant stupidity.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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