Crossword clues for contended
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Contend \Con*tend"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Contended; p. pr. & vb. n. Contending.] [OF. contendre, L. contendere, -tentum; con- + tendere to strech. See Tend.]
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To strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.
For never two such kingdoms did contend Without much fall of blood.
--Shak.The Lord said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle.
--Deut. ii. 9.In ambitious strength I did Contend against thy valor.
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To struggle or exert one's self to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend.
You sit above, and see vain men below Contend for what you only can bestow.
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To strive in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue.
The question which our author would contend for.
--Locke.Many things he fiercely contended about were trivial.
--Dr. H. More.Syn: To struggle; fight; combat; vie; strive; oppose; emulate; contest; litigate; dispute; debate.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: contend)
Usage examples of "contended".
Instead of a modest family of slaves and freedmen, such as had contented the simple greatness of Augustus and Trajan, three or four magnificent courts were established in the various parts of the empire, and as many Roman kings contended with each other and with the Persian monarch for the vain superiority of pomp and luxury.
The bishops, who contended with each other for ecclesiastical preeminence, appeared by their conduct to claim a secular and tyrannical power in the church.
The rivals who contended for the possession of the Roman world, had withdrawn the greatest part of their forces from the guard of the general frontier.
The majority of the people supported the glory of the Christian name, which had been first invented by their ancestors: ^13 they contended themselves with disobeying the moral precepts, but they were scrupulously attached to the speculative doctrines of their religion.
While the Franks and Burgundians contended with equal valor, his seasonable desertion decided the event of the battle.
The recent injuries of Sicily might provoke a just retaliation on the heads of the Saracens: the Normans, whose blood had been mingled with so many subject streams, were encouraged to remember and emulate the naval trophies of their fathers, and in the maturity of their strength they contended with the decline of an African power.
He undertook the conquest of the East, whilst the larger portion of Rome was possessed and fortified by his rival Guibert of Ravenna, who contended with Urban for the name and honors of the pontificate.
The latter contended, that Christendom was essentially distributed into the four great nations and votes, of Italy, Germany, France, and Spain, and that the lesser kingdoms (such as England, Denmark, Portugal, &c.
But as soon as the monarchs of France, Germany and Spain, contended with gigantic arms for the dominion of Italy, they supplied with art the deficiency of strength.
In his book Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes, John Woolman contended that no one had the right to own another human being.
The participants at the Bethel meeting contended that this propaganda tended to justify racial discrimination.
Urging his brothers not to show fear because God was on their side, Walker contended that any man who was not willing to fight for his freedom deserved to remain in slavery and to be butchered by his captors.
He said that Brown had attacked slavery "with the weapons precisely adapted to bring it to the death," and he contended that, since slavery existed by "brute force," then it was legitimate to turn its own weapons against it.
He contended that to support the government and the constitution on which it was based was to endorse a despotic state, and he went on to express his abhorrence for the system which destroyed him and his people.
After Emancipation, he contended, the hopes of the Negroes were betrayed.