Contention is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CONTENTION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• an act or instance of contending
• heated disagreement
• an assertion, especially one maintained in argument
• A violent effort or struggle to obtain, or to resist, something; contest; strife.
• Strife in words; controversy; altercation; quarrel; dispute; as, a bone of contention.
• Vehemence of endeavor; eagerness; ardor; zeal.
• A point maintained in an argument, or a line of argument taken in its support; the subject matter of discussion or strife; a position taken or contended for.
• a point asserted as part of an argument
• a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement
• the act of competing as for profit or a prize

Words related to CONTENTION

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Words that contain CONTENTION

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How to use CONTENTION in a sentence

• The immediate object of contention was the island of Sicily, lying between the territory of Rome and that of Carthage.
• This produced contention for a short time, which ended in the elected maintaining his place.
• This King Mark refused to do, and there was great contention betwixt Cornwall and Ireland, so that each country made ready for war.
• Upon which the lovely lady whom Dummling had brought home, leapt through as lightly as a fawn, and this put an end to all contention.
• If a married couple will quarrel at all, they will find the occasion, and it were fortunate indeed if their contention might concern important affairs.
• Such were the terms on which Rome and Persia brought their contention respecting Armenia to a conclusion.
• In the Book of God, the Mighty, the Great, ye have been forbidden to engage in contention and conflict.
• Sweden and Denmark were too weak to support their contention against the sea-power of Great Britain.
• Pliny says it is a wonder for two ladies of the same quality to dwell in the same place, without feuds or contention.
• This proposal was likewise overruled, after a short though warm contention.
• The property of East Friezeland continued still to be the source of contention between the electors of Bran-denburgh and Hanover.
• Never was any contention of this kind maintained with more spirit and animosity, or carried on at a greater expense.
• With this cause of contention, others of a more private nature fatally concurred, by means of a misunderstanding between the prince Czartorinski and count Muisnec.
• Home with an atmosphere of contention is worse than none for the child, and it is the interest of the child, and that alone, that will be the test of all these things.
• Promiscuous talks must not be dragged in and contention is absolutely forbidden.
• Yet that is just a saying which directly bears upon the present contention.
• To one aspect of this contention we shall later return.
• And there was no contention among all his people for the space of three years.
• One moment he gives all that is wanted for the Lamarckian contention, the next he denies common sense the bare necessaries of life.
• Their mistakes have made me quite unhappy and there has always been CONTENTION between my Ministers and myself.
• Hence we have among us every shade and every variety of religious opinion, and, in many cases, contention and strife, resulting from hopeless efforts to produce uniformity.
• I had not seen Idomeneus since the time that we together, in friendly contention, sought the hand of Helen.
• And all his flesh seemed in contention with a slowly ebbing force.
• Practical considerations do not do away with the truth of an artistic contention, though they may often prevent its realization.

Similar words containing NTEN without suffix tion and without prefix co

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