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Webster 1913 Edition


Debateful

De-bate′ful

,
Adj.
Full of contention; contentious; quarrelsome.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

Webster 1828 Edition


Debateful

DEBA'TEFUL

, a.

Definition 2024


debateful

debateful

English

Adjective

debateful (comparative more debateful, superlative most debateful)

  1. (obsolete) Contentious, argumentative, full of strife.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi:
      Debatefull strife, and cruell enmitie / The famous name of knighthood fowly shend [...].