Militation

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Conflict, struggle. archaic

    "How shall they be induced to sympathise with our principles, unless they can be convinced that those principles impel us to sympathise with them in their abhorrence of men and measures, whose iniquity consists in their militation against all principles?"

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"How shall they be induced to sympathise with our principles, unless they can be convinced that those principles impel us to sympathise with them in their abhorrence of men and measures, whose iniquity consists in their militation against all principles?"

Etymology

Probably from militate + -ion.

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