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Webster 1913 Edition


Bickerment

Bick′er-ment

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Noun.
Contention.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

Webster 1828 Edition


Bickerment

BICK'ERMENT

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Noun.
Contention. [Not used.]

Definition 2024


bickerment

bickerment

English

Noun

bickerment (countable and uncountable, plural bickerments)

  1. (obsolete) Argument, bickering.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.4:
      Artegall, arriving happily, / Did stay a while their greedy bickerment, / Till he had questioned the cause of their dissent.