Definition of Contentiously

1. Adverb. In a contentious manner ¹

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Definition of Contentiously

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Contentiously

contentation
contentations
contented
contentedly
contentedness
contentednesses
contentest
contenteth
contentful
contenting
contention
contention system
contention systems
contentions
contentious
contentiously (current term)
contentiousness
contentless
contently
contentment
contentments
contents
conterminable
conterminal
conterminant
conterminate
conterminous
conterminously
conterminousness
contes

Literary usage of Contentiously

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dodd's Church History of England from the Commencement of the Sixteenth by Hugh Tootell (1839)
"Giving further in authority to all justices of peace, within the shires where they dwell, to apprehend and take all such as contentiously and tumultuously, ..."

2. Ecclesiastical Memorials; Relating Chiefly to Religion, and the Reformation by John Strype (1822)
"or irreverently and contentiously ... to apprehend and take al such as contentiously and tumultuously, with companies or routs assembled about them, ..."

3. The Sources of Religious Insight: Lectures Delivered Before Lake Forest by Josiah Royce (1912)
"For sometimes such a man is contentiously thoughtful, and fond of using too many ... Sometimes contentiously prejudiced men are altogether too fond of the ..."

4. Hierurgia Anglicana: Or Documents and Extracts Illustrative of the Ritual of by Ecclesiological Society (1848)
"... straitly willeth and commandeth, that no manner of person from henceforth do in any wise contentiously and openly argue> dispute, reason, ..."

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