contentionaladj.
/kənˈtɛnʃənəl/ a. Of the nature or character of contention.
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1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 27 June 4/3 The contentional meeting of last night.
b. quasi-n.
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1846 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Wks. I. 103/1 The Iliad itself has nothing in the contentional so interesting.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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