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internecine in-tur-NES-een adjective struggle within a group or country; a mutually destructive conflict 1881Round the WorldHer withdrawal would be the signal for internecine strife, and such a saturnalia of blood and rapine as the world has never known; but were the question whether Britain should to-day accept India as a gift, and I had the privilege of replying, then, 'Declined with thanks;' and yet it is the fashion just now to call India 'the brightest jewel in the crown.'1994Keeping the Rabble in LineYet the left, if I can call it that, when not bogged down in internecine warfare, is seemingly in a reactive mode only.2000Pandora's ReboubtInternecine, the most uncivil of wars.Labels: Andrew Carnegie, Nick Pollotta, Noam Chomsky
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