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▪ I. ˈwrangling, vbl. n.
[f. wrangle v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the verb; noisy quarrelling.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. iv. 34 There as wratthe and wranglyng is þere wynne þei siluer. 1551Gardner Explic. Christ's Presence 14 As for such other wranglyng..shall after be spoken of by further occasion. 1598Florio, Contèsa,..a strife, a debate or wrangling. 1653W. Ramesey Astrol. Restored 137 Mars..causes discord and wrangling. 1722Ramsay Three Bonnets iv. 137 The king of brutes..wad.. rage Wi' bootless wrangling in his cage. 1813Scott Rokeby iii. xii, Though wild debate And wrangling rend our infant state. 1882Sir C. Dilke in Gwynn Life (1917) I. 426 Much unseemly wrangling would be prevented for many years.
fig.1609R. Armin Maids of More-cl. C 2 b, 'Twill become ye, well, when wrangling wrestles with such violent iniurie.
b. Controversial argument or debate; contentious disputation.
1612Brinsley Lud. Lit. 219 There falleth out amongst them oft-times..much wrangling about the questions. 1641Milton Reform. 25 What wrangling the Bishops and Monks had about the reading, or not reading of Origen. 1679Penn Addr. Prot. ii. ii. (1692) 71 Philosophy..became little else than an Art of Rangling upon a multitude of Idle Questions. 1720S. Payne Bp. R. Cumberland's Sanchon. p. xxvii, His Averseness to any thing like Wrangling made him..leave his Book to shift for it self. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 334 All that wrangling and witticism wherewith the prophecies..have been pelted by freethinkers. 1827Whateley Logic 26 A system of such rules..must, instead of deserving to be called the art of wrangling, be [etc.]. 1879Froude Cæsar xxv. 436 A refuge from platform oratory and senatorial wrangling.
attrib.c1700Pomfret Strephon's Love 10 Those dull, pedantic rules, They had collected from the wrangling schools. 1708Rowe Royal Convert i. i, Unpractis'd in Disputes, and wrangling Schools.
2. A wrangle; a noisy quarrel.
1580Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 472 They that can-not suffer the wranglyngs of young marryed women. 1605Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iii. Vocation 1152 He heard amid the street A wrangling, jangling, and a murmur rude. 1668Glanvill Plus Ultra Pref., Consider me as a Person that contemns all Wranglings. 1727Swift To Stella 7 Not in Wranglings to engage With such a stupid vicious Age. 1788V. Knox Winter Even. lxx. (1790) II. 530 The wranglings of Cambridge, and the disputations at Oxford, are apt to give young men a controversial turn, which [etc.]. 1821Byron Sardan. ii. i, Truce with these wranglings, and but hear me! 1890Talmage Fr. Manger to Throne 562 Unseemly wranglings concerning who should be greatest in the kingdom of Christ.
▪ II. ˈwrangling, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
1. That wrangles, quarrels, or disputes; engaged or embroiled in, given or addicted to, noisy altercation or dispute; contentious.
1487Cely Papers (Camden) 161 Hys atorney ys a wranglyng felow, he wold non odyr mony but nemyng grotes. a1529Skelton Agst. Garnesche ii. 40 Thow manytycore, ye marmoset,..Wranglynge, waywyrde, wytles, wraw, and no⁓thyng meke. 1581A. Hall Iliad v. 100 Mars is a wrangling craking wretche. 1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. vii. xxxiv, The third Hæreticus, a wrangling carle. 1656Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini's Advts. fr. Parnass. i. xxxi. (1674) 36 It might serve..for a Lesson to wrangling Courtiers. 1718Pope Let. to Caryll 18 Jan., The unrighteous labours of wrangling statesmen, and the quarrelsome ones of uncharitable divines. 1759Dilworth Pope 39 After the death of poor wrangling Dennis. 1820Wordsw. ‘Dogmatic Teachers’ 2 Ye wrangling Schoolmen, of the scarlet hood! 1825Scott Betrothed Concl., For wrangling curs will fight over a banquet as fiercely as over a bare bone. 1846A. Marsh Father Darcy II. v. 112 The wrangling nobles of Philistia.
transf. and fig.1583B. Melbancke Philotimus Dd iv, A wrangling tongue is the best language thou hast. a1721Sheffield (Dk. Buckhm.) Wks. (1753) I. 15 Thy happy stroke can into softness bring Reason, that rough and wrangling thing. 1898Meredith Odes Fr. Hist., Revolution xiii, And he, the bright day's husband,..Beheld a wrangling heart, as 'twere her soul On eddies of wild waters cast. 1899Swinburne Rosamund i. 18 Let no wrangling breath distune the peace That shines..about us.
b. Noisy; clamorous; also transf., jangling.
1608Machin Dumb Knt. iii. E 3 b, When the sad nurse to still the wrangling babe, Shall sing the carefull story of my death. 1845Longfellow Belfry of Bruges, Carillon ii, When the wrangling bells had ended. 1856Mrs. Gore Life's Lessons II. 227 Her remote Dale, with its wrangling beck. 1891Athenæum 15 Aug. 214/1 So has it fared with the marshlands..with their wrangling sea-fowl.
2. Of the nature of wrangling; contentious, noisy, clamorous.
1551Gardner Explic. Christ's Presence 43 Wherof this auctor may not thinke nowe as vpon a wranglyng argument, to satisfie a coniecture diuised. 1614Raleigh Hist. World iii. vi. §6 To finde him busie in wrangling altercation. 1641Milton Animadv. 57 Because hee may not as a Judge sit out the wrangling noyse of litigious Courts. 1663Bp. Patrick Parab. Pilgr. xix, This wrangling piece of Learning. 1722Horrobin in Keble Life Bp. Wilson (1863) 507 The wrangling, jangling disputes about the Divinity of our Saviour. 1753J. Collier Art Torment. (1811) 216 Some wrangling dispute or other that shall sour the whole company.
3. Marked or characterized by noisy or contentious disputation or altercation.
1576Whetstone Rock of Regard i. 97 A wrangling hate, where once was passing loue. 1594Shakes. Rich. III, ii. iv. 55 Accursed, and vnquiet wrangling dayes. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 251 Our wrangling humour and desire to be cavilling about questions disputable. 1628May Virg. Georg. ii. 61 He sees no wrangling courts, no lawes undone By sword. 1656Cowley Pindar. Odes, Destinie iii, Thou neither great at Court,..Nor at th' Exchange shalt be, nor at the wrangling Bar. 1715Pope Iliad ii. 307 Peace, factious monster, born to vex the state, With wrangling talents form'd for foul debate. 1851Mayne Reid Scalp Hunt. xxxiv. 262 It is hard to behold the worshipped men of our wrangling days become degraded under modern light. 1883Whitelaw Sophocles, Antigone 111 At call of Polyneices, stirred By bitter heat of wrangling claims, Against our land they gathered.
Hence ˈwranglingly adv.
1611Cotgr., Tempestativement,..contentiously, seditiously, wranglingly. 1698Norris Pract. Disc. IV. 65 We should..discourse of it not..Wranglingly and Contentiously,..but Cordially and Spiritually. |