Meanings (ES + gloss)
contender • opositar • refertar
To be in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.
For never two such kingdoms did contend without much fall of blood.
The Lord said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle.
contender
To struggle or exert oneself to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend.
17th century, John Dryden, Epistle III to the Lady Castlemain You sit above, and see vain men below / Contend for what you only can bestow.
God has entrusted something to the church, and it is the church's job to contend for it, even unto death
sostener
To be in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue.
many of those things he so fiercely contended about , were either falle or trivial
these simple ideas are far from those innate principles which some contend for
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