Controversy, debate, contention, strife; a quarrel. Now Scottish.

The fact or condition of being in dispute or disagreement with another; discord, dissension. Later in weakened use: the fact of no longer being…

Dissension, dispute: = distance, n. 1 withouten stance: without dispute, undoubtedly.

in (also at) controversy: subject to, or taking part in, controversy; in dispute.

Disputation, debate, discussion; an instance of this.

The action of disputing or debating (questions, etc.); controversial argument; debate, discussion, controversy.

= disceptation, n.

A conflict, a dispute. Obsolete.

= controversy, n.

The action of contend, v.; striving, disputing.

The action of fend, v.; an instance of this; esp. in fending and proving (cf. fend, v. 2).

figurative. Strife or bickering of words; wrangling, contention, disputation.

The action of bandy, v.: (a) tossing to and fro, exchange (of blows, words, etc.); (b) contentious argument, disputation; (c) contention, strife…

Disputation or controversy, as between parties at law; verbal contention; keen argumentation.

The action of controvert, v. (in various senses); an instance of this.

Controversial argument or debate; contentious disputation.

The action of contest, v.; contending, disputing.

A quarrel, an argument; (occasionally) a fight, a brawl. Also: contention, dispute.

Bad form for contestation, n.

= controversy, n.

Strife in argument, keen controversy, dispute, debate, wordy war. †without contest: without dispute, incontestably.

Contention, wrangling.

wrangling.

transferred. Verbal hitting or skirmishing; engagement in argument or dispute; bandying of words.

colloquial and regional (esp. Scottish and U.S.). A row, an uproar; a brawl; a dispute. Frequently (now only) in to settle the hash: to resolve a…

Disputatious argument, bandying of words, wrangling.

Controversial argument; wordy disputation.

Coming and going, toing and froing; commerce, exchange; bandying (of argument).