warre
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warre (countable and uncountable, plural warres)
- Obsolete spelling of war
- 1572, George Gascoigne, Dulce Bellum Inexpertis:
- The Poets olde in their fonde fables faine, / That mightie Mars is god of Warre and Strife, / These astronomers thinke, where Mars doth raigne, / That all debate and discorde must he rife,
- 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
- Out Of Civil States, There Is Alwayes Warre Of Every One Against Every One