faction fight

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noun

Southern African a fight between rival Black groups, usually originating in tribal or clan feuds

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Words nearby faction fight

facticity, faction, factional, factionalism, factionalize, faction fight, factious, factitious, factitious disorder, factitive, factive

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How to use faction fight in a sentence

He lost the State, and with it the election, while Hill won, and thereby arose an ugly faction fight.
Marse Henry (Vol. 2)|Henry Watterson
A certain very poor widow was paying the priest money for the soul of her son, who was killed in a faction fight.
The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent|S.M. Hussey
And no man knew so well as did Sir Timothy how to elevate a simple legislative attempt into a good faction fight.
The Duke's Children|Anthony Trollope
It was a faction fight or something of that kind, and of course there is no feeling of a religious or party nature in it.
Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent|William Carleton

Again, the next year, a religious faction-fight disgraced the capital of the Empire.
Theodoric the Goth|Thomas Hodgkin