Definition of contention

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Contention (n.) A violent effort or struggle to obtain, or to resist, something; contest; strife..

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Outcast :: Outcast (n.) A quarrel; a contention.
Altercation :: Altercation (n.) Warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest.
Strife :: Strife (n.) Altercation; violent contention; fight; battle.
Discord :: Discord (v. i.) Want of concord or agreement; absence of unity or harmony in sentiment or action; variance leading to contention and strife; disagreement; -- applied to persons or to things, and to thoughts, feelings, or purposes..
Contek :: Contek (n.) Quarrel; contention; contest.
Debatefully :: Debatefully (adv.) With contention.
Strife :: Strife (n.) Exertion or contention for superiority; contest of emulation, either by intellectual or physical efforts..
Word :: Word (n.) Verbal contention; dispute.
Strived :: Strive (n.) Strife; contention.
Litigious :: Litigious (a.) Subject to contention; disputable; controvertible; debatable; doubtful; precarious.
Tiff :: Tiff (n.) A fit of anger or peevishness; a slight altercation or contention. See Tift.
Decertation :: Decertation (n.) Contest for mastery; contention; strife.
Dissension :: Dissension (n.) Disagreement in opinion, usually of a violent character, producing warm debates or angry words; contention in words; partisan and contentious divisions; breach of friendship and union; strife; discord; quarrel..
Controversy :: Controversy (n.) Contention; dispute; debate; discussion; agitation of contrary opinions.
Bicker :: Bicker (n.) A wrangle; also, a noise,, as in angry contention..
Brawl :: Brawl (n.) A noisy quarrel; loud, angry contention; a wrangle; a tumult; as, a drunken brawl..
Brigue :: Brigue (n.) A cabal, intrigue, faction, contention, strife, or quarrel..
Debate :: Debate (v. t.) Contention in words or arguments; discussion for the purpose of elucidating truth or influencing action; strife in argument; controversy; as, the debates in Parliament or in Congress..
Struggler :: Struggle (n.) Contest; contention; strife.
Colluctation :: Colluctation (n.) A struggling; a contention.
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