Definition of "contestation" [con•tes•ta•tion]

• The act of contesting; emulation; rivalry; strife; dispute. (noun)
• Proof by witness; attestation; testimony. (noun)

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• "Germany's so-called contestation suits date back to the 19th century and were designed to protect minority shareholders who can ask the court to invalidate majority votes."
• "Or, on the other side, is the "contestation" merely confirmation for the oppressed of what they have already learned, and have always already lived?"
• "Is the "contestation" produced, taken up, and consumed by a comfortable and unmoved bourgeois readership?"