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Quarrelous
QUAR'RELOUS
,Adj.
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quarrelous
quarrelous
English
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Adjective
quarrelous (comparative more quarrelous, superlative most quarrelous)
- (now US) Quarrelsome; argumentative.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.12:
- Is it not better for a man to suspend his owne perswasion, than to meddle with these sedicious and quarellous [transl. quereleuses] divisions?
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.12: