Contesting
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Contesting is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of contest.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of contest.
More Meanings
- The act of one who contests something; a disputation.
Example Sentences
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 part of the government of the Republic.
Word Forms
- contestings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include contend, repugn, competition, answering, arguing, challenging.
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