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/kˈɑntrəvˌərsi/ Listen

noun

Controversy n. (pl. controversies)

Contention; dispute; debate; discussion; agitation of contrary opinions. "This left no room for controversy about the title." "A dispute is commonly oral, and a controversy in writing."

Quarrel; strife; cause of variance; difference. "The Lord hath a controversy with the nations."

A suit in law or equity; a question of right. (Obs.) "When any man that had a controversy came to the king for judgment."

Synonyms: Dispute; debate; disputation; disagreement; altercation; contention; wrangle; strife; quarrel.

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"Controversy" Quotes from Famous Books

... in spite of these sage counsels; the peasant reiterated his objections more strongly than before; when the appearance of two or three carters, coming quietly down the road driving a wagon, put an end to the controversy. The danger could not be very great when these men were coming along so unconcernedly, singing merry songs; and such was in fact the case, for the shots, according to what the carters said, had not ...

— Dona Perfecta • B. Perez Galdos

... closed his workshop and went away to report the matter to those who were related to the dead man. And when the news had been spread abroad about the city that Aristeas was dead, a man of Kyzicos who had come from the town of Artake entered into controversy with those who said so, and declared that he had met him going towards Kyzicos and had spoken with him: and while he was vehement in dispute, those who were related to the dead man came to the fuller's shop with the things proper in order to take up the ...

— The History Of Herodotus - Volume 1(of 2) • Herodotus

... of the United-States Army to carry out their orders with implicit faith, and there is seldom a conflict as to the line of duty to be followed. If there was any exception, it was in regard to the course pursued by General Hancock. His conduct became a subject of controversy, and the popular division respecting its merits was on the political line. The National Administration and the Democratic party, both North and South, applauded every thing which General Hancock said and did in Louisiana. The Republican ...

— Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) • James Gillespie Blaine

... continued during the sixth and seventh centuries, owing somewhat perhaps to the influence of Byzantium and the introduction into Italy of Eastern types and elements. In the eighth century the Iconoclastic controversy broke out again in fury with the edict of Leo the Isaurian. This controversy was a renewal of the old quarrel in the Church about the use of pictures and images. Some wished them for instruction in the Word; others decried them as leading to ...

— A Text-Book of the History of Painting • John C. Van Dyke

... is the passage so often referred to in the controversy concerning the antiquity of Ossian's Poems. It was natural enough for the zealous Bishop to speak disparagingly of anything which appeared to him to divert the minds of the people from those important religious truths to which he piously wished to direct ...

— Elements of Gaelic Grammar • Alexander Stewart

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