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contestings

contestings is the plural of contesting.

Meaning of contesting

Noun

contesting (plural contestings)

  1. 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...1888, Camillo Boito, The Basilica of S. Mark in Venice, page 154

Questions about contestings

What is contestings the plural of?
Contestings is the plural of contesting.

Words near contestings in the dictionary

  1. contesters
  2. contesteth
  3. contestible
  4. contesting
  5. contestingly
  6. contestings
  7. contests
  8. contex
  9. contexed
  10. contexing
  11. context

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