Contend vs Uncontending - What's the difference?
contend | uncontending |
to strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.
* Bible, Deuteronomy ii. 9
* Shakespeare
to struggle or exert one's self to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend.
* Dryden
to strive in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue.
* John Locke
* Dr H. More
Not contending.
*{{quote-book, year=1885, author=John Ruskin, title=On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2), chapter=, edition=
, passage=In him I see a strong human creature, contending with all hardship: in you also a human creature, uncontending , and possibly not strong. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1903, author=William Godwin, title=Caleb Williams, chapter=, edition=
, passage=His judgment was penetrating and manly, totally unmixed with imbecility and confusion, while at the same time there was such an uncontending frankness in his countenance, that a superficial observer would have supposed he must have been the prey of the first plausible knavery that was practised against him. }}
As a verb contend
is to strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.As an adjective uncontending is
not contending.contend
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(Webster 1913)Verb
(en verb)- The Lord said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle.
- For never two such kingdoms did contend without much fall of blood.
- You sit above, and see vain men below / Contend for what you only can bestow.
- The question which our author would contend for.
- Many things he fiercely contended about were trivial.
Synonyms
* struggle, fight, combat, vie, strive, oppose, emulate, contest, litigate, dispute, debateExternal links
* *uncontending
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Adjective
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