Definition of contention

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Contention (n.) Vehemence of endeavor; eagerness; ardor; zeal.

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Debatefully :: Debatefully (adv.) With contention.
Chest :: Chest (n.) Strife; contention; controversy.
Litigious :: Litigious (a.) Subject to contention; disputable; controvertible; debatable; doubtful; precarious.
Concertation :: Concertation (n.) Strife; contention.
Contentious :: Contentious (a.) Fond of contention; given to angry debate; provoking dispute or contention; quarrelsome.
Debatable :: Debatable (a.) Liable to be debated; disputable; subject to controversy or contention; open to question or dispute; as, a debatable question..
Outcast :: Outcast (n.) A quarrel; a contention.
Bate :: Bate (n.) Strife; 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..
Emulation :: Emulation (n.) Jea/ous rivalry; envy; envious contention.
Polemy :: Polemy (n.) Warfare; war; hence, contention; opposition..
Altercation :: Altercation (n.) Warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest.
Debateful :: Debateful (a.) Full of contention; contentious; quarrelsome.
Bateful :: Bateful (a.) Exciting contention; contentious.
Strive :: Strive (v. i.) To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest; -- followed by against or with before the person or thing opposed; as, strive against temptation; strive for the truth..
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..
Agonism :: Agonism (n.) Contention for a prize; a contest.
Broil :: Broil (n.) A tumult; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl; contention; discord, either between individuals or in the state..
Strived :: Strive (n.) Strife; contention.
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