controverse
verb/kɒntɹəˈvɜː(ɹ)s/
Etymology Borrowed from Middle French controverse.
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Obsolete to controvert
controverse
noun/ˈkɒntɹəvɜː(ɹ)s/
Etymology Borrowed from Middle French controverse.
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Obsolete Controversy.
- So fitly now here commeth next in place, After the proofe of prowesse ended well, The controverse of beauties soveraine grace […]1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC: