contestation

American  

[kon-te-stey-shuhn] / ˌkɒn tɛˈsteɪ ʃən /

noun

1. the act of contesting; controversy; dispute.

2. an assertion contended for.

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Other Word Forms

• noncontestation
  noun

Etymology

Origin of contestation

1540–50; (< Middle French ) < Latin contestātiōn- (stem of contestātiō ). See contest, -ation

Example Sentences

A Paraphrase upon the Verses which Famianus Strada made of the Lutanist and Philomell in Contestation.

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard

Contestation del duque di Alba, in Gonzalez 450.

From A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) by Ranke, Leopold von

Contestation and uncertainty he never can know; a stranger to all controversy, above all mystery, he possesses his mind in unruffled peace.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 by Various

A Treatise of Contestation fit for these sad & troublesome times by J. Hall Bishop of Norwich.

From The Compleat Cook Expertly Prescribing the Most Ready Wayes, Whether Italian, Spanish or French, for Dressing of Flesh and Fish, Ordering Of Sauces or Making of Pastry by M., W.