disputatiousness

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Second, the decline of Nehru’s Congress Party coincided with the rise of dozens of communal and caste-based political parties that reflected India’s diversity and its disputatiousness.

From Slate • Sep. 30, 2014

This was no time for disputatiousness or the display of warm feeling between himself and the man who, if haply anything had gone wrong with the Captain, might become the head of them all.

From Two Gallant Sons of Devon A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess by Hodgson, Edward S.

"It is your disputatiousness," he said, "which within the last forty years has made far more unbelievers than all the productions of philosophy."

From Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) by Morley, John

I do not think he would have objected to the disputatiousness of Wilde, although he was well over twenty-five before he left the noisy field of argument, if, indeed, he left it at all.

From Oscar Wilde A Critical Study by Ransome, Arthur

Looking back on his friendship at a distance of twenty years, he felt an amused pleasure in the disputatiousness which could be irritating, the intellectual vanity, the irresolution that came from too great subtlety.

From Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles by Various