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psychomachy

noun

A conflict of the soul (as with the body or between good and evil).

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Word length
11
Starts with
P
Ends with
Y
Contains
SY
Scrabble score
31

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noun

  1. A conflict of the soul (as with the body or between good and evil).

    “Later echoes of medieval psychomachy can be found in Shakespeare's 144th sonnet and in Tennyson's poem ‘The Two Voices’ (1842).”

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Later echoes of medieval psychomachy can be found in Shakespeare's 144th sonnet and in Tennyson's poem ‘The Two Voices’ (1842).

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