Definition of contention

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Contention (n.) Strife in words; controversy; altercation; quarrel; dispute; as, a bone of contention..

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Word :: Word (n.) Verbal contention; dispute.
Bate :: Bate (n.) Strife; contention.
Incendious :: Incendious (a.) Promoting faction or contention; seditious; inflammatory.
Ruffle :: Ruffle (v. i.) To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger..
Strived :: Strive (n.) Strife; contention.
Struggler :: Struggle (n.) Contest; contention; strife.
Altercation :: Altercation (n.) Warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest.
Quarrelsome :: Quarrelsome (a.) Apt or disposed to quarrel; given to brawls and contention; easily irritated or provoked to contest; irascible; choleric.
Embroil :: Embroil (v. t.) To throw into confusion or commotion by contention or discord; to entangle in a broil or quarrel; to make confused; to distract; to involve in difficulties by dissension or strife.
Broil :: Broil (n.) A tumult; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl; contention; discord, either between individuals or in the state..
Tiff :: Tiff (n.) A fit of anger or peevishness; a slight altercation or contention. See Tift.
Agonism :: Agonism (n.) Contention for a prize; a contest.
Emulation :: Emulation (n.) Jea/ous rivalry; envy; envious contention.
Brunt :: Brunt (v. t.) The heat, or utmost violence, of an onset; the strength or greatest fury of any contention; as, the brunt of a battle..
Firebrand :: Firebrand (n.) One who inflames factions, or causes contention and mischief; an incendiary..
Debatefully :: Debatefully (adv.) With contention.
Strife :: Strife (n.) Exertion or contention for superiority; contest of emulation, either by intellectual or physical efforts..
Litigious :: Litigious (a.) Subject to contention; disputable; controvertible; debatable; doubtful; precarious.
Contek :: Contek (n.) Quarrel; contention; contest.
Debateful :: Debateful (a.) Full of contention; contentious; quarrelsome.
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