The Christian doctrine of a future life was no recommendation of the new religion to the wits and philosophers of that disputations period. --Buckminster. -- {Dis`pu*ta"tious*ly}, adv. -- {Dis`pu*ta"tious*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
disputatiousness — disputatious ► ADJECTIVE 1) fond of argument. 2) (of an argument or situation) motivated by or causing strong opinions. DERIVATIVES disputatiously adverb disputatiousness noun … English terms dictionary
disputatiousness — noun see disputatious … New Collegiate Dictionary
disputatiousness — See disputatiously. * * * … Universalium
disputatiousness — noun The state or quality of being disputatious or argumentative; contentiousness. See Also: argumentativeness, quarrelsomeness, belligerence … Wiktionary
disputatiousness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The quality or state of being argumentative: argumentativeness, combativeness, contentiousness, litigiousness, scrappiness. See CONFLICT … English dictionary for students
disputatiousness — dis·pu·ta·tious·ness … English syllables
disputatiousness — noun see disputatious … Useful english dictionary
Cussedness — Cuss ed*ness (c[u^]s [e^]d*n[e^]s), n. [Cussed (for cursed) + ness.] Disposition to willful wrongdoing; malignity; perversity; cantankerousness; obstinacy. [Slang or Colloq., U. S.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.] In her opinion it was all pure cussedness … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
disputatious — adjective Date: 1660 1. a. inclined to dispute b. marked by disputation 2. provoking debate ; controversial • disputatiously adverb • disputatiousness … New Collegiate Dictionary
Invisible Pink Unicorn — The Invisible Pink Unicorn (IPU) is the goddess of a satiric parody religion aimed at theistic beliefs, which takes the form of a unicorn that is paradoxically both invisible and pink. [cite book |last=Angeles |first=Peter A. |title=Harper… … Wikipedia
