Controversies
[kɔntrəvə:siz]
Definition
(pl. ) of Controversy
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Examples
- Disputes arose as to which was invented first, and long controversies between scientific societies, most of which sided with the friends of Davy. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- To Gibbon he must go for a derisive statement of these controversies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Christian controversies, with their competition for adherents, ploughed the ground for the harvest of popular education. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- So that controversies, wranglings, disputes, and positiveness, in false or dubious propositions, are evils unknown among the _Houyhnhnms_. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- He never left any chance for newspaper controversies about who won the battle. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Riots and excommunications and banishments punctuated these controversies, and finally came official persecutions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Checker: Quincy