Definition of Quarrelling

1. Verb. (present participle of quarrel) ¹

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Definition of Quarrelling

1. quarrel [v] - See also: quarrel

Lexicographical Neighbors of Quarrelling

quarkonium
quarkoniums
quarks
quarkyonic
quarl
quarls
quarrel
quarreled
quarreler
quarrelers
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quarrelings
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quarrelsomely
quarrelsomeness
quarriable
quarried
quarrier
quarriers
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quarrion
quarrions

Literary usage of Quarrelling

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (1912)
"... are almost quarrelling again; Cassius is so emotional he almost weeps. ^Cassius lets go all his pent-up anger with some of his emotion, but a good deal ..."

2. The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages by Hastings Rashdall (1895)
"Drinking, quarrelling. Practical joking. University towns were even to be met parties of scholars— many of them expelled or banished for previous ..."

3. Dictionary of national biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1893)
"He also succeeded in quarrelling, first with Colonel King and then with the Earl of Manchester, both of whom he regarded as lukewarm, incapable, ..."

4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1873)
"... often embroiled with other learned men, and often quarrelling with his friends, he seems to have passed a feverish arid unsatisfied life; ..."

5. The Mirror by Henry Mackenzie (1801)
"... (and I think it a great one) «f quarrelling with the world, would never have been carried the length I have lamented in fome of my friends, ..."

6. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"... nor their own, nor any others'; which excess often brought forth quarrelling and destroying one another: for they destroyed the creation and one another ..."

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