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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



... their contestation/Was theam for you, you were the word of war] [W: theam'd] I am neither satisfied with the reading nor the emendation; theam'd is, I think, a word unauthorised, and very harsh. ...
— Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies • Samuel Johnson
... duties which belong to his profession as a magistrate. It is true that upon this system the judicial censorship which is exercised by the courts of justice over the legislation cannot extend to all laws indiscriminately, inasmuch as some of them can never give rise to that precise species of contestation which is termed a lawsuit; and even when such a contestation is possible, it may happen that no one cares to bring it before a court of justice. The Americans have often felt this disadvantage, but they have left the remedy incomplete, ...
— American Institutions and Their Influence • Alexis de Tocqueville et al
... April Marie de Medicis became the mother of a third son, upon whom, after some contestation between his illustrious parents, was bestowed the title of Duc d'Anjou. The Queen was desirous that he should be called Prince of Navarre, but Henry preferred the former designation, from the fact that it had been that of many of the French Princes ...
— The Life of Marie de Medicis, Vol. 1 (of 3) • Julia Pardoe
... length the twig was becoming the tree Being the true religion, proved by so many testimonies Certainly it was worth an eighty years' war Chief seafaring nations of the world were already protestant Conceding it subsequently, after much contestation Fled from the land of oppression to the land of liberty German Highland and the German Netherland Little army of Maurice was becoming the model for Europe Luxury had blunted the fine instincts of patriotism ...
— Quotations From John Lothrop Motley • David Widger


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