[f. prec. + -NESS.] The condition or character of being quarrelsome; contentious disposition.
1611. Donne, Serm. (ed. Alford), V. 32. God giveth not his Children … valour, and then leaveth them to a spirit of Quarrelsomeness.
a. 1656. Bp. Hall, Rem., 77 (T.). The giddiness of some, others’ quarrelsomeness.
1780. Bentham, Princ. Legisl., Wks. 1843, I. 76, note. Although a man, by his quarrelsomeness, should for once have been engaged in a bad action [etc.].
1879. R. K. Douglas, Confucianism, iii. 88. In manhood … he avoided quarrelsomeness.
