All 6 Uses of
contend
in
Anna Karenina
- In the commission this question had been a ground of contention between several departments.†
Part 3
- It was evident to Levin that Sviazhsky knew an answer to this gentleman's complaints, which would at once demolish his whole contention, but that in his position he could not give utterance to this answer, and listened, not without pleasure, to the landowner's comic speeches.†
Part 3
- And this solution was in favor of Alexey Alexandrovitch's contention.†
Part 4 *
- They naively believed that it was their business to lay before the commission their needs and the actual condition of things, and to ask assistance of the government, and utterly failed to grasp that some of their statements and requests supported the contention of the enemy's side, and so spoiled the whole business.†
Part 4
- And all of a sudden, instead of his life with his wife being made on an individual pattern, it was, on the contrary, entirely made up of the pettiest details, which he had so despised before, but which now, by no will of his own, had gained an extraordinary importance that it was useless to contend against.†
Part 5
- And listening to the conversation, he supported Sviazhsky's contention.†
Part 6
Definition:
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(contend as in: She contended that...) to claim that something is true