contesting

plural contestings

1. The act of one who contests something; a disputation.

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   With regard to these disputes, doubts, and contestings, of the early and the later times of the Republic, I may be allowed to note this: that we may easily wonder how they could have been raised by persons not foreign to the city, but who belonged to those same families the members of which formed part of the government of the Republic.

   1888, Camillo Boito, The Basilica of S. Mark in Venice, page 154

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of contest