confliction

[ kuhn-flik-shuhn ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

the act or state of conflicting or clashing; disagreement:
Various records are in confliction as to exactly how the mighty warrior looked, but most agree that he stood head and shoulders above his fellow soldiers.
the state of being full of opposing or conflicting emotions or impulses:
He would even run off and abandon his family in an instant to save a friend, though probably not without some guilt and confliction.

First recorded in 1690–1700; from Latin cōnflīctiōn-, stem of cōnflīctiō “a striking together, collision”; conflict ( def ), -ion ( def )

Well, I should judge you might divide up your affections on those two without any serious confliction of sentiments.

Yet somewhere amid the mass of confliction there follows a thread of fact.

By reason of this one source of authority, there is, therefore, no confliction of creeds.

There need be no such confliction, and a few words of explanation will, I think, be quite sufficient.

For this is impossible in Paracosma; it is a confliction with the laws.

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