Definition of "truce" []

• A temporary cessation or suspension of hostilities by agreement of the opposing sides; an armistice. (noun)
• A respite from a disagreeable state of affairs. (noun)
• To end or be ended with a truce. (verb-transitive)

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• ""On the 30th of August, the States expressed their readiness to agree to a long truce, provided, the adverse party 'would _so absolutely acknowledge them for free countries, as that it should not be questioned after the expiration of the truce_, that otherwise they could not listen to a truce.'"
• "I. iii.262 (35,4) long continu'd truce] Of this long _truce_ there has been no notice taken; in this very act it is said, that _Ajax coped"
• "With each flare-up, it is clear that the term truce has taken on a diplomatic meaning distinct from actual events on the ground."