War —Defined
Most know war as the shoot'm up and bombing activity.
But... have you consider other types of war? Political wars?
WAR. n.s. (1785)
War may be defined the exercise of violence under sovereign command against withstanders; force, authority, and resistance, being the essential parts thereof. 5. Hostility; state of oppression; act of oppresion. When we review the era appropriate definitions for hostility, oppression, infringe, deny, disparage, abridge, we see similarity in the definitions.
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To OPPRESS. v.a. (1785) 1. To crush by hardship or unreasonable severity. 2. To overpower; to subdue. OPPRESSION. n.s. (1785) 1. The act of oppressing; cruelty; severity. 2. The state of being oppressed; misery. 3. Hardship; calamity. 4. Dulness of spirit; lassitude of body. OPPRESSION. n.s. (1785) One who harasses others with unreasonable or unjust severity. |