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Definition of Disputatious

1. Adjective. Inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits. "A litigious and acrimonious spirit"

Definition of Disputatious

1. a. Inclined to dispute; apt to civil or controvert; characterized by dispute; as, a disputatious person or temper.

Definition of Disputatious

1. Adjective. Of or relating to something that is in question as to its value or intent. ¹

2. Adjective. Inclined to argue or debate; provoking debate. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Disputatious

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Disputatious

Literary usage of Disputatious

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

1. Works of Fisher Ames: With a Selection from His Speeches and Correspondence by Fisher Ames, Seth Ames, John Thornton Kirkland (1854)
"It is worthy of remark, that the disputatious turn of the House appears in quibbles on little things, as evidently as it did the last session in things of ..."

2. Heroes and Heroines of Fiction by William Shepard Walsh (1914)
"He is a hard-headed and hard- featured Scotchman, vain, pedantic, disputatious, dogmatic; eccentric in manner and in dress, but with a jealous sense of ..."

3. The Scholastic Philosophy Considered in Its Relation to Christian Theology by Renn Dickson Hampden (1848)
"... by the Schoolmen of the disputatious form of Aristotle's writings. Fundamental errors of Scholastic Theology, 1. Its neglect of the Historical Nature of ..."

4. Salad for the Social by Frederick Saunders (1856)
"... settlement of their disputatious, should become the victims of merciless harpies, who, under pretext of defending the right, seek to serve their own, ..."

5. Works of Fisher Ames With a Selection from His Speeches and Correspondence by Fisher Ames (1854)
"It is worthy of remark, that the disputatious turn of the House appears in quibbles on little things, as evidently as it did the last session in things of ..."

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