Lexic.us

Definition of Conflicting

1. Adjective. In disagreement. "Contradictory attributes of unjust justice and loving vindictiveness"

Definition of Conflicting

1. a. Being in conflict or collision, or in opposition; contending; contradictory; incompatible; contrary; opposing.

Definition of Conflicting

1. Adjective. Striking, or dashing together; fighting; contending; struggling to resist and overcome. ¹

2. Adjective. Being in opposition; contrary; contradictory. ¹

3. Verb. (present participle of conflict) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Conflicting

1. conflict [v] - See also: conflict

Lexicographical Neighbors of Conflicting

Literary usage of Conflicting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1908)
"conflicting Tendencies in American Elementary Education HERBERT G. LULL, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OP EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, SEATTLE HAVE chosen ..."

2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1886)
"that the question of the existence of the defense •et up was fairly put to the Jury, on conflicting evidence. St. This court cannot review the weight of the ..."

3. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1921)
"Character of the questions in this book: they involve the weighing of conflicting elements, and are affected by social sympathy, — Sec. 2. ..."

4. The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George the by Thomas Erskine May (1875)
"There are circumstances, however, in which the parallel conflicting is not maintained. The Crown and Parliament England and nave a common interest in the ..."

5. The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George the by Thomas Erskine May (1906)
"The Crown conflicting and Parliament have a common interest in of Eng- the welfare of their country : but England colonies. and her colonies may have ..."

6. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1877)
"But even in the period on which we are now entering, a period in which we have at every step to weigh the conflicting statements of national and political ..."

7. The Confessions of S. Augustine: Book I-X. by Augustine (1886)
"... doctrine that the conflict of wills implies two conflicting natures and principles, one Good, the other Evil. " T ET them perish from Thy presence" (Ps. ..."

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