Contentiously

adv. [f. prec. + -LY².] In a contentious manner or spirit; with contention: quarrelsomely.

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1548. Edw. VI., in Strype, Eccl. Mem., II. App. M. 43. Whosoever shal … irreverently and contentiously demaund of any man, any of the questions before rehersed.

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1564. Brief Exam., Sign.**** iij. We are affrayde to stryue contentiouslye.

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1650. S. Clarke, Eccl. Hist., I. (1654), 69. Everyone … contentiously would argue thereof.

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