Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dispute or contest; a slight skirmish.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A dispute or contest; a slight contest; a skirmish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic A fight or a
skirmish .
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Examples
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While the ladies in the tea-room of the Fox Hotel were engaged in the light snappish velitation, or skirmish, which we have described, the gentlemen who remained in the parlour were more than once like to have quarrelled more seriously.
Saint Ronan's Well 2008
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Huh? Anyway, San Diego writer Michael Hemmingson had a little velitation with O'Reilly over a quote from O'Reilly's novel that Hemmingson used in one of his own novels.
October 2004 2004
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Huh? Anyway, San Diego writer Michael Hemmingson had a little velitation with O'Reilly over a quote from O'Reilly's novel that Hemmingson used in one of his own novels.
Re-Entry with Links 2004
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While the ladies in the tea-room of the Fox Hotel were engaged in the light snappish velitation, or skirmish, which we have described, the gentlemen who remained in the parlour were more than once like to have quarrelled more seriously.
St. Ronan's Well Walter Scott 1801
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If you're involved in a velitation, you are: a. fighting as a soldier in a war.
Blogposts | guardian.co.uk Michael Tomasky 2010
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The reader will easily see that Byron is here meant, who, after a little velitation of no great promise, now appeared as a serious candidate, in the first two cantos of 'Childe Harold'. "
The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
pavonine commented on the word velitation
A dispute or contest; a slight contest; a skirmish
December 16, 2007
qms commented on the word velitation
The pundits treat each perturbation
As though an omen for the nation,
But surely they mock us
With the Iowa caucus,
That farcical rustic velitation.
September 5, 2015