Obs. [a. OF. content, cuntent contention, quarrel, on L. type *content-us, from content- ppl. stem of contendĕre to CONTEND.] A contention, dispute, quarrel.
a. 1450. Knt. de la Tour (1863), 100. Whereof sourded a grete content and stryf bytwene these two wymmen.
1483. Caxton, G. de la Tour, F vij b. Of the content that was betwene Fenenna and Anna [1 Sam. i.].