disputing

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

DISPUTING, participle present tense Contending by words or arguments; controverting. DISPUTING, noun The act of contending by words or arguments; controversy; altercation. Do all things without murmurings or disputings. Philippians 2:14.
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