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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Controversy" Quotes from Famous Books

... small wit," "without manners or breeding." In controversy he would bluntly contradict, and he never spoke the truth. When in his "club," in order to be thought a man of intrigue, he would steal out quietly, and then in disguise return and call for himself, or leave a ...

— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 • E. Cobham Brewer

... and others beside him were preparing the change which was to come on the English Drama. Two scholars who had shared with Spenser in the bounty of Robert Newell were beginning, in different lines, to raise the level of thought and style. Hooker was beginning to give dignity to controversy, and to show what English prose might rise to. Lancelot Andrewes, Spenser's junior at school and college, was training himself at St. Paul's, to lead the way to a larger and higher kind of preaching than ...

— Spenser - (English Men of Letters Series) • R. W. Church

... Jack, in his most fatherly manner, "I am surprised that two sensible people like you and Jim should fall into such a distressing controversy over nothing, absolutely nothing. You are already in perfect accord. Jim says the house is only half large enough. You say you want one more room. The house is now just thirty-three feet long and thirty-three ...

— The House that Jill Built - after Jack's had proved a failure • E. C. Gardner

... Whilst the controversy was at its fiercest, on the 3rd of June, 1561, a violent thunderstorm burst over London. The Church of St. Martin's, Ludgate, was struck by lightning, and great masses of stones came down upon the pavement. ...

— Old St. Paul's Cathedral • William Benham

... horses and cattle in order to seek a miracle in their favor at this same shrine. Fire destroyed the image in 1902. Protestants were accused of setting fire to it because a missionary was near at the time. (He was forty miles away.) In the controversy that arose the missionary noted that, inasmuch as the new image was sent by freight and not by ticket, it must be an idol and not a saint. Suffice it to say, that a new image was placed and the people ...

— Brazilian Sketches • T. B. Ray

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