arguing

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

'ARGUING, participle present tense Inventing and offering reasons; disputing; discussing; evincing; accusing. 'ARGUING, noun Reasoning; argumentation. What doth your arguing reprove? Job 6:25.
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