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Definition of Truce
1. Noun. A state of peace agreed to between opponents so they can discuss peace terms.
Definition of Truce
1. n. A suspension of arms by agreement of the commanders of opposing forces; a temporary cessation of hostilities, for negotiation or other purpose; an armistice.
Definition of Truce
1. Noun. a period of time in which no fighting takes place due to an agreement between the opposed parties ¹
2. Noun. an agreement between opposed parties in which they pledge to cease fighting for a limited time ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Truce
1. to suspend hostilities by mutual agreement [v TRUCED, TRUCING, TRUCES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Truce
Literary usage of Truce
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law of Nations: Or, Principles of the Law of Nature, Applied to the by Emer de Vattel (1883)
"A ship being out at sea at the time when the truce is published, mee« with a ship
belonging to the enemy, and sinks her : as there is no guilt in this case, ..."
2. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, William Hardcastle Browne (1894)
"A truce, or suspension of arms, does not end the war, but is one of the commercia
belli, ... A particular truce is only a partial cessation of hostilities, ..."
3. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1909)
"Prussia had no authority to conclude this truce; but the Danish Government, ...
The Malmoe truce stipulated that the Provisional Government should cease, ..."
4. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1905)
"The difficulty lay in the attitude of Maurice, who had from the first been utterly
averse to a truce; but on the other hand Oldenbarneveldt was heart and ..."
5. Elements of International Law by Henry Wheaton (1866)
"There are various modes in which the extreme truce or rigor of the ... Among these
is that of a suspension of hostilities, by means of a truce or armistice. ..."
6. History of England from the Accession of James I. to the Outbreak of the by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1889)
"SIGNATURE OF THE truce. sioners, now, at last, able to work together, ...
The position of England, at the conclusion of the truce, was no doubt inferior to ..."
7. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1921)
"Different from abuse of his mission by an Abuse of authorised flag-bearer is
abuse of the flag of truce itself, truce! which may take one of two different ..."
8. Iliad by Homer, W. G. Caldcleugh (1870)
"... OF THE truce. ARGUMENT. The gods deliberate about the war, and agree that it
shall continue ; whereupon Minerva descends, and persuades ..."
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