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单词 controversity
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controversityn.

Brit. /ˌkɒntrəˈvəːsᵻti/, U.S. /ˌkɑntrəˈvərsədi/
Forms: 1500s controuersite, 1500s controuersitie, 1600s controuersity, 1600s– controversity.
Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: French controversité ; controversy n.
Etymology: Either (i) < Middle French controversité (a1389; probably < classical Latin contrōversus (see controversed adj.) + Middle French -ité -ity suffix), or (ii) an alteration (after e.g. adversity n., perversity n.) of controversy n.
Now nonstandard and rare.
= controversy n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > controversy, dispute, argument > [noun]
pleac1275
distancec1325
stance14..
in controversyc1432
disceptation1447
disputation1489
disception1492
concertation1509
controversity1528
contending1561
fending and proving1583
digladiation?1591
bandying1599
contestation1602
controverting1610
wrangling1612
contesting1616
rixation1623
contestion1632
controversarya1635
contest1642
vitilitigation1647
ergoteering1687
sparring1755
hash1789
controversying1865
argle-bargle1872
wringle-wrangle1882
argy-bargy1887
polemicizing1948
va-et-vient1959
1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. F Controuersite [L. controuersia] amonge phisitians touchynge the choyce of flesshes.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Controuersitie, controuersia, lis.
a1607 H. Chettle Trag. Hoffman (1631) iii. sig. F Old Stilt. Treason and iniquity? Stilt. Reason, and equity I meant Father; ther's little controuersity in the words.
1671 H. Stubbe Epistolary Disc. Phlebotomy 244 Consider the shortness of the time allotted unto me,..and the multiplicity of controversities I have intreated on.
1752 W. Goodall Adventures Capt. Greenland II. v. vi. 158 I have made a firm Resolution never to engage in Points of Controversity.
1770 Gentleman's Mag. June 275/1 This memoir is little more than a controversity with Venuti, whether these coins were struck at Malta.
1851 T. Robinson Twin Fallacies of Rome iii. 52/1 It is more to the purpose, perhaps, in the present controversity, to quote from Dr. Wiseman than from Bellarmine.
1886 Cincinnati Lancet-Clinic 30 Jan. 154/1 He was modest and full of condescension, never waging controversities.
1914 School Jrnl. Sept. 235/2 A rather conservative statement in the light of recent controversities.
2012 V. Talvitie Found. Psychoanalytic Theories i. 12 Discussions about colours do not lead to open controversities.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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