contencion

A friend of mine, who is a lawyer, used the Latin phrase “bona contencion” believing it meant “the goods in contention” or more generally “the subject matter of the dispute”.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Latin Phrases Law Students Should Know, But Likely Don’t: 2007

So gladde is she to haue the victorie, in the contencion of wiuely chastitie, and honeste behauiour toward her husbande.

The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie 2004

In the assemble of the Grecians, gathered to consulte vpon the contencion of

A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde Richard Rainolde

[Sidenote: Antitheton.] _Contentio_, contencion, when the reason stãdeth by contrary wordes or contraries be rehearsed by cõparison, thus: Flattery hath pleasaũt begynnynges, but the same hathe verye bytter endynges.

A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes Richard Sherry

So gladde is she to haue the victorie, in the contencion of wiuely chastitie, and honeste behauiour toward her husbande.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. Richard Hakluyt 1584

"And know right well, that the more they steare thys sacramente the broder shal theyr lyes be spreade, the more shall theyr falsehoode appeare, and the more gloriously shall the truthe triumph: as it is to se thys daye by longe contencion in thys same and other like articles, which the papists have so long abused, and howe more his lyes utter the truthe every day more and more.

Notes and Queries, Number 21, March 23, 1850 Various