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velitation

noun as in encounter

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action
battle
bout
clash
combat
conflict
contest
dispute
quarrel
run-in
skirmish
violence

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brush
collision
contention
engagement
flap
fray
hassle
rumpus
scrap
set-to

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Velitation, vel-i-tā′shun, n. a slight skirmish.

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While the ladies in the tea-room of the Fox Hotel were engaged in the light snappish velitation, or skirmish, which we have described, the gentlemen who remained in the parlour were more than once like to have quarrelled more seriously.

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