Obs. Also -chon, -cyon. [ad. OF. tençon, tenchon, tenson (12th c.) a contest, a quarrel = Pr. tenso, It. tenzone, ad. L. tensiōn-em, f. tend-ĕre to stretch, strive, contend.] A contention, dispute, quarrel.
1471. Caxton, Recuyell (Sommer), 521. A grete strif or tenchon [F. une tençon et debat] that is fallen betwene them. Ibid. (1474), Chesse, III. vi. (1883), 129. Hit happeth ofte tymes that ther cometh of glotonye tencyons stryfs ryottes [etc.]. Ibid. (c. 1477), Jason, 8. That the wyn had surmounted hem in wordes and tencions.
