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Conquest vs Anticonquest - What's the difference?

conquest | anticonquest |

As a proper noun conquest

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

As an adjective anticonquest is

opposing a conquest; regarding the indigenous inhabitants of a colonised country as victims rather than foes of the colonisers.

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.
  • (marketing) .

    • anticonquest

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Opposing a conquest; regarding the indigenous inhabitants of a colonised country as victims rather than foes of the colonisers.