disputatiousness

• “It is your disputatiousness,” he said, “which within the last forty years has made far more unbelievers than all the productions of philosophy.” As we cannot too clearly realise, it was the flagrant social incompetence of the church which brought what they called Philosophy, that is to say Liberalism, into vogue and power. —  Diderot and the Encyclopaedists (Vol 1 of 2)
• Republicans and Democrats in the House of Representatives were excoriated for political cowardice, childish disputatiousness, and a selfish desire to get re-elected next month at any cost. —  A New Dark Age Is Dawning
• This culture of disputatiousness does yield some essential fruits. —  Israelated - English Israel blogs
• 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. —  Two Gallant Sons of Devon A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess
• "It is your disputatiousness," he said, "which within the last forty years has made far more unbelievers than all the productions of philosophy." —  Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2)

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