Definition of War

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Definition of War

War

Ware; aware.

A contest between nations or states, carried on by force, whether for defence, for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce, for the acquisition of territory, for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other, or for any other purpose; armed conflict of sovereign powers; declared and open hostilities.

A condition of belligerency to be maintained by physical force. In this sense, levying war against the sovereign authority is treason.

Instruments of war.

Forces; army.

The profession of arms; the art of war.

a state of opposition or contest; an act of opposition; an inimical contest, act, or action; enmity; hostility.

To make war; to invade or attack a state or nation with force of arms; to carry on hostilities; to be in a state by violence.

To contend; to strive violently; to fight.

To make war upon; to fight.

To carry on, as a contest; to wage.

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War Quotations

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
Thomas Jefferson

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
Thomas Jefferson

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
Thomas Jefferson

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
Thomas Jefferson

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
Thomas Jefferson

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
Thomas Jefferson

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
Albert Einstein

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
Albert Einstein

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
Albert Einstein

War Translations

war in Afrikaans is oorlog
war in Danish is krig
war in Dutch is oorlog, krijg
war in Finnish is sota
war in French is guerre
war in German is Krieg
war in Italian is guerra, guerre
war in Latin is bellum
war in Norwegian is krig
war in Portuguese is guerra
war in Spanish is guerra
war in Swedish is krig

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