[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That quarrels; quarrelsome.
1589. Nashe, Pref. Greene’s Menaphon (Arb.), 13. That quarrelling kinde of verse.
1593. Tell-Troth’s N. Y. Gift (1876), 30. The quarreling mate shall not complaine for want of knockes.
1670. Clarendon, Ess., Tracts (1727), 166. A froward, proud and quarreling conscience.
1822. B. Cornwall, Two Dreams, 11. The loud quarrelling elements cast out Their sheeted fires.
Hence † Quarrellingly adv. Obs.
1571. Golding, Calvin on Ps. lxix. 11. They stryve with them quarrellingly, and wythout meeldnesse.
1586. Holinshed, Chron. Eng., III. 20/2. He caused the bishop to be sued, quarelinglie charging him that [etc.].
