All 3 Uses of
controversy
in
Don Quixote
- Sancho insisted that it was an inn, and his master that it was not one, but a castle, and the dispute lasted so long that before the point was settled they had time to reach it, and into it Sancho entered with all his team without any further controversy.†
Chpt 1.15-16 *
- On hearing this one of the newly arrived officers of the Brotherhood, who had been listening to the dispute and controversy, unable to restrain his anger and impatience, exclaimed, "It is a pack-saddle as sure as my father is my father, and whoever has said or will say anything else must be drunk."†
Chpt 1.45-46
- CHAPTER L. OF THE SHREWD CONTROVERSY WHICH DON QUIXOTE AND THE CANON HELD, TOGETHER WITH OTHER INCIDENTS "A good joke, that!" returned Don Quixote.†
Chpt 1.49-50
Definition:
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(controversy) disagreement -- especially regarding a public issue that arouses strong feelings