contestatory

Only within Departments of English (or at MLA sessions) is a "contestatory" utterance seen as a roofbeam thrown on the barricades.

Shelley, Adorno, and the Scandal of Commited Art 2001

Instead, they generally endorse some form of “qualified populism” (Richardson 2002) or “contestatory democracy” (Pettit 1997, 1999, 2001; Maynor 2003).

Republicanism Lovett, Frank 2006

And that is the story of growing up-that democracy is the story of pragma, of mature understanding of the contestatory space.

Kafila 2009

The ability to distinguish between contestatory and hegemonic speech.

I cite 2009

Thus the expression: "Upon my soul", often used without any intention of swearing, may be either contestatory — the soul being in a special manner the image of God — or execratory — if we wish to call down upon our soul Divine punishment, either temporal or eternal, in case we be wanting in sincerity; (3) private, if used between private individuals; public, if exacted by public authorities; public oaths are divided into: (a) doctrinal, by which one declares that he holds

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

Delany says that “it is only relatively wide-ranging readers who can respond to writerly talent, because they alone can experience what it is different from”: “People who read only mysteries, or, indeed, only eighteenth-century novels, are not likely to have much input into the contestatory dialogue about which contemporary works are worthwhile and which works aren’t.”

Some thoughts on Samuel R. Delany's About Writing Jenny Davidson 2006

It is indeed as though the major legacy of the sixties was to furnish a whole new code, a whole new set of thematics-that of the political-with which, after that of sex, the entertainment industry could reinvest its tired paradigms, without any danger to itself or to the system; and we should take into account the possibility that it is the overtly political or contestatory parts of Dog Day Afternoon which will prove the least functional from a class point of view.

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A promissory oath accompanied by a threat against a third party is said to be comminatory; (2) contestatory — or simple — if there is a mere invocation of the Divine testimony; imprecatory — or execratory — as in the formula "So help me

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913