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controuersie

controuersie is the obsolete spelling of controversy.

Meaning of controversy

Noun

controversy (countable and uncountable, plural controversies)

  1. A debate or discussion of opposing opinions; (generally) strife.
    • [A]nd it is without all controuerſie, that learning doth make the minds of men gentle, generous, maniable, and pliant to gouernment; whereas Ignorance makes them churliſh, thwart, and mutinous; […]1605, Francis Bacon, “The First Booke”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for...
    Antonyms:
    consensus, agreement

Questions about controuersie

What is controuersie the obsolete spelling of?
Controuersie is the obsolete spelling of controversy.

Words near controuersie in the dictionary

  1. contronym
  2. contronymic
  3. contronymous
  4. contronyms
  5. contronymy
  6. controuersie
  7. controul
  8. controuled
  9. controuler
  10. controulers
  11. controuling

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Adapted from Wiktionary: controuersie (page history and authors); controversy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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