ENGLISH DICTIONARY

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

  1. 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

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include contend, repugn, competition, answering, arguing, challenging.

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