Both Uses of
contend
in
Crediting Poetry by Seamus Heaney
- Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.†
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- …heritages; but surely every dweller in the country must hope that the governments involved in its governance can devise institutions which will allow that partition to become a bit more like the net on a tennis court, a demarcation allowing for agile give-and-take, for encounter and contending, prefiguring a future where the vitality that flowed in the beginning from those bracing words "enemy" and "allies" might finally derive from a less binary and altogether less binding vocabulary.†
Definition:
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(contend as in: She contended that...) to claim that something is true