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contentiousness|kənˈtɛnʃəsnɪs| [f. as prec. + -ness.] The quality of being contentious; disposition to contention; quarrelsomeness.
1573G. Harvey Letter-bk. (Camden) 16 [He] began in deed to lai contentiusnes to mi charg. 1661Boyle Spring of Air Pref. (1682) 1 They that know how indisposed I naturally am to Contentiousness. 1815Elphinstone Acc. Caubul (1842) I. 217 Any circumstance which disposes the people to contentiousness and jealousy. 1876J. H. Newman Hist. Sk. I. 246 The contentiousness of human nature. |