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contestations

contestations is the plural of contestation.

Meaning of contestation

Noun

contestation (countable and uncountable, plural contestations)

  1. The act of contesting; emulation
    Synonyms:
    rivalry, strife, dispute
  2. The act of challenging or disputing a claim or idea.
    • Contempt and loathing for body and nature are central to the operations of white male grievance, and any contestation of these politics will require us to challenge the somatophobia and ecophobia with which they are bound up.2022, Marisol Cortez, “Ambivalent Anality: Revisiting the Queer Ecology of "the Jackass Moment"”, in Media+Environment
  3. Proof by witness; attestation; testimony.

Questions about contestations

What is contestations the plural of?
Contestations is the plural of contestation.

Words near contestations in the dictionary

  1. contestable
  2. contestably
  3. contestant
  4. contestants
  5. contestation
  6. contestations
  7. contestatory
  8. contested
  9. contestee
  10. contestees
  11. contester

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