Word Meanings - CONTROVERSION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Act of controverting; controversy. Hooker.

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• CONTROVERTIBLE
  Capable of being controverted; disputable; admitting of question. -- Con`tro*ver"ti*bly, adv.
• CONTROVERTIST
  One skilled in or given to controversy; a controversialist. How unfriendly is the controvertist to the discernment of the critic! Campbell.
• CONTROVERT
  To make matter of controversy; to dispute or oppose by reasoning; to contend against in words or writings; to contest; to debate. Some controverted points had decided according to the sense of the best jurists. Macaulay.
• CONTROVERTER
  One who controverts; a controversial writer; a controversialist. Some controverters in divinity are like swaggerers in a tavern. B. Jonson.
• HOOKER
  1. One who, or that which, hooks. A Dutch vessel with two masts. A fishing boat with one mast, used on the coast of Ireland. A sailor's contemptuous term for any antiquated craft.
• CONTROVERSY
  controversus turned against, disputed; contro- = contra + versus, 1. Contention; dispute; debate; discussion; agitation of contrary opinions. This left no room for controversy about the title. Locke. A dispute is commonly oral, and a controversy
• BERING SEA CONTROVERSY
  A controversy between Great Britain and the United States as to the right of Canadians not licensed by the United States to carry on seal fishing in the Bering Sea, over which the United States claimed jurisdiction as a mare clausum. A court of
• INCONTROVERTIBLE
  Not controvertible; too clear or certain to admit of dispute; indisputable. Sir T. Browne. -- In*con`tro*ver"ti*ble*ness, n. -- In*con`tro*ver"ti*bly, adv.
• INCONTROVERTIBILITY
  The state or condition of being incontrovertible.
• UNCONTROVERTIBLY
  Incontrovertibly.
• UNCONTROVERTIBLE
  Incontrovertible.