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hollybrooke) wrote2007-05-14 08:11 am
hollybrooke) wrote2007-05-14 08:11 am
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Word of the Day for Monday, May 14, 2007
internecine \in-tuhr-NES-een; -NEE-syn; -NEE-sin\, adjective:
1. Of or relating to conflict within a nation, an organization, or a group.
2. Mutually destructive; involving or accompanied by mutual slaughter.
3. Deadly; destructive; marked by slaughter.
"It was directed locally and regionally by mid-level party bosses . . . who were likely to be engaged in internecine feuding."
-- Michael H. Kater, The Twisted Muse
"During the months of war and the internecine street fighting, coal and wood supplies ran out and houses went unheated."
-- Edmund White, Marcel Proust
Internecine is from Latin internecinus, from internecare, "to destroy utterly, to exterminate," from inter- + necare, "to kill," from nec-, nex, "violent death."
internecine \in-tuhr-NES-een; -NEE-syn; -NEE-sin\, adjective:
1. Of or relating to conflict within a nation, an organization, or a group.
2. Mutually destructive; involving or accompanied by mutual slaughter.
3. Deadly; destructive; marked by slaughter.
"It was directed locally and regionally by mid-level party bosses . . . who were likely to be engaged in internecine feuding."
-- Michael H. Kater, The Twisted Muse
"During the months of war and the internecine street fighting, coal and wood supplies ran out and houses went unheated."
-- Edmund White, Marcel Proust
Internecine is from Latin internecinus, from internecare, "to destroy utterly, to exterminate," from inter- + necare, "to kill," from nec-, nex, "violent death."