casus belli
| (Latin) justification for war, grounds for a dispute. |
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Such might have been the end of it had the CASUS BELLI been other than it was; but Teeka was flattered at the attention that was being drawn to her and by the fact that these two young bulls were contemplating battle on her account. I couldn't make a casus belli of it just then, because my Chief had taken all the troops to hammer a gang of slave kings up north. |
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