conquest.

However unjust I have been to you, I can't atone by permitting what you call conquest.

The Crown of Life George Gissing 1880

First Mortein, then maces, then warhammers, then axes for any insectiods interested in conquest.

Cheeseburger Gothic » Sweet jeebus, lookit this mess! 2009

Verlaine is a coast holding with age-old rights, and the Duke has ambitions which run in more peaceful lines now than sword conquest.

Witch World Norton, Andre 1963

The irruption of the Saracens into China under Walid can scarcely be termed a conquest.

History of the Moors of Spain M. Florian

Page 15 wished me joy of what they were pleased to call my conquest.

Narrative of Joanna; An Emancipated Slave, of Surinam. 1838

He still left a fair and ample patrimony But the victorious Turks oppressed on all sides the weakness of a widow and orphan; and, for the equivalent of an annual pension, they resigned to the Greek emperor the charge of defending, and the shame of losing, the last relics of the Latin conquest.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

Rather startling to realize that it was that primitive human whom the Nunuli had found -- and unerringly analyzed to be vulnerable to a certain kind of conquest.

The Battle of Forever Van Vogt, A. E. 1971

I suppose right this minute he's going around town boasting about his 'conquest.'

Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918

Where the theological incubus is unresisted it takes the form of a sacred caste, as among the Hindoos; appreciable advance then ceases, except from some external pressure, such as conquest.

The Emancipation of Massachusetts Brooks Adams 1887

"Bearing rich gifts, they disclosed the possibilities of the _Hinterland_ and germinated in the brain of Cortes the idea of conquest.

South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure Cyrus Townsend Brady 1890