Definition of "contestation"

contestation

/ˌkɒn.tɛsˈteɪ.ʃən/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural contestations
1. The act of contesting; emulation
2. The act of challenging or disputing a claim or idea.
  Quotations
  Contempt and loathing for body and nature are central to the operations of white male grievance, and any contestation of these politics will require us to challenge the somatophobia and ecophobia with which they are bound up.
  2022, Marisol Cortez, “Ambivalent Anality: Revisiting the Queer Ecology of "the Jackass Moment"”, in Media+Environment
3. Proof by witness; attestation; testimony.