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The word "litigate" has been used in literature in ways that celebrate its roots in contest and conflict. In one instance, Luce draws attention to its etymological composition—combining "lit" and "agere"—to illustrate that to litigate essentially means to contest in law, thus grounding the term in its original sense of active dispute [1]. In contrast, La Fontaine employs the word in a more figurative framework; within a family dispute over an estate, the act of litigating becomes emblematic of broader quarrels and rivalries, thereby extending its meaning beyond the confines of a legal proceeding to capture the spirit of competitive human interaction [2].
  1. To litigate = contest in law ( lit + agere ) may help you to the root-meaning.
    — from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce
  2. In parcelling their sire's estate, They quarrel, quibble, litigate, Each aiming to supplant the other.
    — from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

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