Usually means: Dispute or disagreement over interpretation.
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  1. contestation: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. contestation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. contestation: Collins English Dictionary
  4. contestation: Vocabulary.com
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  6. contestation: Wiktionary
  7. contestation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. contestation: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Contestation, contestation: Dictionary.com
  10. Contestation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. contestation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. contestation: Rhymezone
  13. Contestation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. contestation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. contestation: Free Dictionary
  16. contestation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Contestation: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. contestation: Legal dictionary

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  1. contestation: Encyclopedia

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  1. contestation: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (contestation)

noun:  The act of contesting; emulation
noun:  The act of challenging or disputing a claim or idea.
noun:  Proof by witness; attestation; testimony.

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