bickerment

English

Etymology

From bicker +‎ -ment.

Noun

bickerment (countable and uncountable, plural bickerments)

(obsolete) Argument, bickering.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  Artegall, arriving happily, / Did stay a while their greedy bickerment, / Till he had questioned the cause of their dissent.

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