>>Not sure about Brit. English usage on this one, but in Americanese, the noun argument could be applied to a dispute ( possibly acrimonious ) or to the case a person makes in favor of a logical position. The verb to argue as a transitive verb would imply the second meaning of argue above and the intransitive the first.
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>Same in English
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>Then there's "quarrel" - something to put your arrows in :-)
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This perhaps explains why St. Stephan would be the patron saint of the quarrelsome.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
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Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
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