[ad. L. conflīctiōnem, n. of action from conflīgĕre to CONFLICT: cf. OF. confliction (14th c. in Godef.).] The action of conflicting; conflicting condition.
a. 1694. Tillotson, Serm., cxxx. Wks. 1728, III. 180. Such contrary Principles and Qualities as by their perpetual Confliction do conspire the Ruin and Dissolution of it.
1832. Beddoes, Poems, p. xciii. The confliction of passions.
1855. Planché, trans. C’tess d’Aulnoy’s Fairy T. (1858), 279. There had been a confliction of interests between the two Queens.
1868. Rep. Council Astron. Soc. The confliction of an ascending current and one at right angles to it.
