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psychomachia (iou)



psychomachia noun. . E17.
[Late Latin (title of a poem by Prudentius c 400), from Greek psukhe PSYCHE noun1 + makhe fight: see -IA1.]
Conflict of the soul; the battle between spirit and flesh, or virtue and vice.
? Obsolete after M17; revived M20 by historians of literature.