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contention (Argument), noun allegation, area of disagreement, argumentation, cause, conflict, contest, debate, discord, disputatio, disputation, dispute, disputed point, ground, issue, legal dispute, legal issue, plea, point, polemic, proposition, reason, root of dissension

contention (Opposition), noun antagonism, challenge, clashing, combat, competition, competitiveness, conflict, contest, contestation, contrariety, contravention, controversy, counteraction, cross purposes, debate, disaccord, disagreement, discord, disharmony, dispute, dissension, dissent, dissidence, dissonance, enmity, faction, factiousness, feud, fight, friction, hostility, inimicality, irreconcilability, protest, protestation, quarrel, quarreling, quarrelsomeness, recrimination, rivalry, schism, strife, struggle, unappeasability, wrangling

See also: altercation, argument, avowal, case, collision, conflict, confrontation, contest, contravention, controversy, disaccord, disagreement, discord, dispute, dissension, embroilment, feud, fracas, fray, lawsuit, opposition, resistance, rift, strife, struggle, variance

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in consequence of
in consideration of
In consimili casu consimile debet esse remedium
in consonance
in conspiracy with
in contact
in contemplation
in contention
In contractibus
in contrast to
in control
in correspondence with the contract
In criminalibus
in current use
In custodia legis

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