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See also:Civil War

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Calque ofLatinbellum cīvīle, in English from 1651 in reference to theEnglish Civil War, with possible early use in the 15th and 16th centuries aswer cyuile orciuill warre. Displaced nativeOld Englishinġewinn.

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civilwar (pluralcivil wars)

  2. Awar fought between factions of the inhabitants of a singlecountry, or a similarpolitical entity.
    • 1712 (date written),[Joseph] Addison,Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published1713,→OCLC, Act I, scene i,page 1:
      Our Father’s Death
      Would fill up all the Guilt ofCivil War,
      And cloſe the Scene of Blood.
    • 2008,BioWare,Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts,→ISBN,→OCLC, PC, scene: Turians: The Unification War Codex entry:
      At about the time the salarians and asari were forming the Council, the turians were embroiled in a bittercivil war. The Unification War, as it was later named, began with hostilities between the colonies furthest from the turian homeworld, Palaven.
    • 2015, Shane R. Reeves, David Wallace, “The Combatant Status of the “Little Green Men” and Other Participants in the Ukraine Conflict”, inInternational Law Studies,US Naval War College‎[1], volume91, number361, Stockton Center for the Study of International Law, page393:
      The “little green men”—faces covered, wearing unmarked olive uniforms, speaking Russian and using Russian weapons—have played a significant role in both the occupation of Crimea and thecivil war in eastern Ukraine.196
    • 2022 September 6, Arwa Mahdawi, “No doomsday bunker, not a single gun – if the US really is heading for civil war, I’m stuffed”, inThe Guardian‎[2]:
      Civil war is now casually discussed on cable TV shows in between ads for haemorrhoid creams and car insurance.

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war between factions within a single country
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