contesting
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contesting
noun contestings
- The act of one who contests something; a disputation. With regard to these disputes, doubts, and contestings, of the early and the later times of the Republic, I may be allowed to note this: that we may easily wonder how they could have been raised by persons not foreign to the city, but who belonged to those same families the members of which formed p
verb
- present participle and gerund of contest
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Closest in meaning: contend, repugn, competition, answering, arguing, challenging, competing, complaining, contending, disputing, objecting, questioning, replying, vying, waging, warring
Talk about this word "contesting." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/contesting. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. contesting. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/contesting "contesting." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/contesting.Cite this
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title = {contesting},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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