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Contend vs Entail - What's the difference?

contend | entail |

As verbs the difference between contend and entail

is that contend is to strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight while entail is to imply or require.

As a noun entail is

that which is entailed hence:.

contend

English

(Webster 1913)

Verb

(en verb)
  • to strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.
  • * Bible, Deuteronomy ii. 9
    • The Lord said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle.
  • * Shakespeare
    • For never two such kingdoms did contend without much fall of blood.
  • to struggle or exert one's self to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend.
  • * Dryden
    • You sit above, and see vain men below / Contend for what you only can bestow.
  • to strive in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue.
  • * John Locke
    • The question which our author would contend for.
  • * Dr H. More
    • Many things he fiercely contended about were trivial.

    Synonyms

    * struggle, fight, combat, vie, strive, oppose, emulate, contest, litigate, dispute, debate

    Related terms

    * contender * contention * contentious

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    entail

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To imply or require.
    • This activity will entail careful attention to detail.
  • To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as a heritage.
  • * Allowing them to entail their estates. — .
  • * I here entail The crown to thee and to thine heirs forever. — Shakespeare
  • (obsolete) To appoint hereditary possessor.
  • * To entail him and his heirs unto the crown. — Shakespeare
  • (obsolete) To cut or carve in an ornamental way.
  • * Entailed with curious antics. — .

    • Derived terms

    * entailment

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which is entailed. Hence:
    • An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
    The rule by which the descent is fixed.
  • * A power of breaking the ancient entails, and of alienating their estates. — .
  • (obsolete) Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.
  • * A work of rich entail. — .

    • References

    (Webster 1913)

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