debateful

adj

debateful

adj

UK [dɪˈbeɪtfəɫ]

Etymology From debate + -ful.

1

Obsolete Contentious, argumentative, full of strife.

  • Debatefull strife, and cruell enmitie / The famous name of knighthood fowly shend [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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