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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Con·flict n.
 1. A striking or dashing together; violent collision; as, a conflict of elements or waves.
 2.  A strife for the mastery; hostile contest; battle; struggle; fighting.
    As soon as he [Atterbury] was himself again, he became eager for action and conflict.   --Macaulay.
    An irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces.   --W. H. Seward.
 Conflict of laws, that branch of jurisprudence which deals with individual litigation claimed to be subject to the conflicting laws of two or more states or nations; -- often used as synonymous with Private international law.
 Syn: -- Contest; collision; struggle; combat; strife; contention; battle; fight; encounter. See Contest.