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Conquering vs Conquest - What's the difference?

conquering | conquest |

As verbs the difference between conquering and conquest

is that conquering is present participle of lang=en while conquest is to conquer.

As nouns the difference between conquering and conquest

is that conquering is conquest while conquest is victory gained through combat; the subjugation of an enemy.

As a proper noun Conquest is

the personification of conquest, (also known as Pestilence), often depicted riding a white horse.

conquering

English

Verb

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    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • conquest
  • * (Sir Philip Sidney)
    • So Stella's heart, finding what power Love brings, / To keep itself in life and liberty, / Doth willing grant, that in the frontiers he / Use all to help his other conquerings

    conquest

    English

    (wikipedia conquest)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Victory gained through combat; the subjugation of an enemy.
  • (figuratively, by extenstion) An act or instance of an obstacle.
  • * Prescott
    • Three years sufficed for the conquest of the country.
  • *
  • That which is conquered; possession gained by force, physical or moral.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home?
  • (feudal law) The acquiring of property by other means than by inheritance; acquisition.
    • (Blackstone)
  • (colloquial, figurative) A person with whom one has had sex.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) To conquer.
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