Struggle vs Militation - What's the difference?
struggle | militation |
Strife, contention, great effort.
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, title= To strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for'' or ''against ), to contend.
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, title= To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.
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*:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
*1799 , Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Advice to the friends of freedom", The Morning Post , 12 Dec 1799:
*:How shall they be induced to sympathise with our principles, unless they can be convinced that those principles impel us to sympathise with them in their abhorrence of men and measures, whose iniquity consists in their militation against all principles?
*1802 , James Sullivan, letter, in Amory 1859, Life and Writings , vol. 2, p. 94:
*:To withhold offices form men who are satisfied with their country's constitution, because they do not love the present administration, when they are better qualified than others, would be no less than a militation with the principles of a free government.
*1995 , Peter Stoicheff, The Hall of Mirrors , p. 166:
*:This militation by the long poem against the designs of its poet is fascinating in Paterson'' and ''Maximus'' because their poets keep a careful vigil on the progress of ''The Cantos yet still do not avoid its fate of self-interrogation for their poems.
As nouns the difference between struggle and militation
is that struggle is strife, contention, great effort while militation is .As a verb struggle
is to strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for'' or ''against ), to contend.struggle
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* (l), (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The struggle with ways and means had recommenced, more difficult now a hundredfold than it had been before, because of their increasing needs. Their income disappeared as a little rivulet that is swallowed by the thirsty ground. He worked night and day to supplement it.}}
Verb
(struggl)Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland, passage=England were ponderous with ball in hand, their runners static when taking the ball and their lines obvious, while their front row struggled badly in the scrum.}}
Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.}}
