Definitions
maintain or assert
Word origin
From Middle English contenden, borrowed from Old French contendre, from Latin contendere (“to stretch out, extend, strive after, contend”), from com- (“together”) + tendere (“to stretch”); see tend, and compare attend, extend, intend, subtend.
Used in a sentence
“The Lord said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle.”
“For never two such kingdoms did contend without much fall of blood.”
“17th century, John Dryden, Epistle III to the Lady Castlemain You sit above, and see vain men below / Contend for what you only can bestow.”
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