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contentiously, adv.|kənˈtɛnʃəslɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a contentious manner or spirit; with contention; quarrelsomely.
1548Edw. VI in Strype Eccl. Mem. II. App. M. 43 Whosoever shal..irreverently and contentiously demaund of any man, any of the questions before rehersed. 1564Brief Exam. Sign.**** iij, We are affrayde to stryue contentiouslye. 1650S. Clarke Eccl. Hist. I. (1654) 69 Everyone..contentiously would argue thereof. |