conflictive vs embattled

conflictive

adj
  • Causing conflict. 

embattled

adj
  • Subject to or troubled by attacks, controversy, or pressure. 

  • Having an upper edge or outline of alternating square indentations and extensions like battlements, unless the embattled item is a pale, cross or saltire, in which case it has the crenelations on all sides. 

  • Of a place: occupied or surrounded by armed troops (also figuratively). 

  • Of a place: strengthened so as to withstand attacks; fortified. 

  • Armed or prepared for battle (literally or figuratively). 

  • Of a fortress or other building, a wall, etc.: having battlements or crenellations; battlemented, crenellated. 

How often have the words conflictive and embattled occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )