My LORD’s Biblecontentiousness
2 occurrences across the corpus
OT Pseudepigrapha
4 Maccabees 1:23
It manifests itself in the soul as ostentation, and covetousness, and vain-glory, and contentiousness, and backbiting, and in the body as eating of strange meat, and gluttony, and gormandizing in secret.
4 Maccabees 4:38
Why does such contentiousness inflame us and a fatal obstinacy find favour with us, when we might have a peaceful life by obeying the king?'