Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • An obsolete spelling of war, war.
  • noun Same as whare.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Worse.

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  • noun Obsolete spelling of war.

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Examples

  • They fared sumptuously every day on the food stored within the magazine; while "daily out of the woods" they took wild hogs, the "very good sort of a beast called warre," that Dampier ate, besides great store of turkeys, pheasants, and numberless guanas,

    On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922

  • About the beginning of this tragicall warre, the Moscouite, to cloke his tyranny and ambition vnder some faire pretense amongst other of his demaunds, made mention also of a tribute which should be due vnto him out of the bishop of Dorpat his iurisdiction, whereof notwithstanding hee could neither bring any iust account, nor affirm any certainty: howbeit there is no man liuing to be found which either can tell of his owne remembrance, or from the relation of others, that any such tribute was euer paid vnto the

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • About the beginning of this tragicall warre, the Moscouite, to cloke his tyranny and ambition vnder some faire pretense amongst other of his demaunds, made mention also of a tribute which should be due vnto him out of the bishop of Dorpat his iurisdiction, whereof notwithstanding hee could neither bring any iust account, nor affirm any certainty: howbeit there is no man liuing to be found which either can tell of his owne remembrance, or from the relation of others, that any such tribute was euer paid vnto the

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 Richard Hakluyt 1584

  • For to let pass y* infinite examples in sundrie nations and severall places of y* world, and instance in our owne, when as y '- old serpente could not prevaile by those firie flames & other his cruell tragedies, which he by his instruments put in ure every wher in y' days of queene Mary & before, he then begane an other kind of warre,

    Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 1792

  • And when you assent to this "warre of all against all," putting it into bloody practice, life can truly become a nasty, brutish and short affair, in our communities, our country, and on the world stage -- unless you're at the top of the heap, of course, with the help of armies and police officers and compliant serfs.

    Archive 2009-10-01 2009

  • From the mists, Mr. Davies summons the kingdoms of Alt Clud, Burgundia, Aragon and Tolosa; he records their emergence, their flowering and theirdemise—whether by "internall diseases" or by "forraign warre," in Thomas Hobbes's words.

    Sovereignty and the Pitiless Passage of Time Henrik Bering 2012

  • Hobbes says, “during the time men live without a common Power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called Warre; and such a warre, as is of every man, against every man” (Leviathan, 1.13).

    Does Human Nature Explain Violence? 2009

  • In 1645, Emanuel Downing, brother-in-law of John Winthrop, wrote to him of his desire for a "juste warre" with the Pequots, to enable the capture of enough Indian men, women, and chiddren to exchange in Barbados for black slaves, saying the colony would never thrive "until we get ... a stock of slaves sufficient to doe all our business."

    The State's Obligation to Recognize and Protect the Catholic Church 2007

  • He makes flat warre with God, and doth defie With his poore clod of earth the spacious skie.

    The Whale Warriors Peter Heller 2007

  • He makes flat warre with God, and doth defie With his poore clod of earth the spacious skie.

    The Whale Warriors Peter Heller 2007

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