contention

CONTENTION, noun [Latin See Contend.]1. Strife; struggle; a violent effort to obtain something, or to resist a person, claim or injury; contest; quarrel.Multitudes lost their lives in a tumult raised by contention among the partizans of the several colors.2. Strife in words or debate; quarrel; angry contest; controversy.Avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law. Titus 3:9.A fools lips enter into contention Proverbs 18:6.3. Strife or endeavor to excel; emulation.4. Eagerness; zeal; ardor; vehemence of endeavor.This is an end worthy of our utmost contention to obtain