quarrelsomeness

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In return, "the young woman of that day will refuse him because he has inherited a gene from his father which will predispose their children to quarrelsomeness".

From BBC • Dec. 26, 2014

Giap's quarrelsomeness has shown up in the long course of the war.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Love's eyes all anger, contempt, and quarrelsomeness are as bad as murder—indeed are incipient murder, stopped short of overt crime through fear.

From The Five Great Philosophies of Life by Hyde, William De Witt

Many of the unions work against the intemperance and quarrelsomeness of their members.

From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Roscher, Wilhelm

It is obvious, indeed, that no change of system or machinery can avert those causes of social malaise which consist in the egotism, greed, or quarrelsomeness of human nature.

From The Acquisitive Society by Tawney, R. H.