contesting
/kəntˈɛstɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.12 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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."