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Contestation   Listen
noun
Contestation  n.  
1.
The act of contesting; emulation; rivalry; strife; dispute. "Loverlike contestation." "After years spent in domestic, unsociable contestations, she found means to withdraw."
2.
Proof by witness; attestation; testimony. (Obs.) "A solemn contestation ratified on the part of God."





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"Contestation" Quotes from Famous Books



... prayers. The Carmite forbids pilgrimages, and allows the use of wine; the Hakemite preaches the transmigration of souls. Thus they make up the number of seventy-two sects, whose banners are before you.* In this contestation, every one attributing the evidence of truth exclusively to himself, and taxing all others with heresy and rebellion, turns against them its sanguinary zeal. And their religion, which celebrates a mild and merciful God, ...
— The Ruins • C. F. [Constantin Francois de] Volney


Words linked to "Contestation" :   tilt, sparring, disputation, disceptation, difference of opinion, controversy, polemic, firestorm, argle-bargle, contention, fight


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