Dispute vs Blame - What's the difference?
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An argument or disagreement, a failure to agree.
Verbal controversy; contest by opposing argument or expression of opposing views or claims; controversial discussion; altercation; debate.
* Milton
Contest; struggle; quarrel.
To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another.
To make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss.
To oppose by argument or assertion; to controvert; to express dissent or opposition to; to call in question; to deny the truth or validity of.
* Bancroft
To strive or contend about; to contest.
* Prescott
(obsolete) To struggle against; to resist.
* Shakespeare
Censure.
Culpability for something negative or undesirable.
Responsibility for something meriting censure.
To censure (someone or something); to criticize.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ii:
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* 1919 , (Saki), ‘The Oversight’, The Toys of Peace :
* 2006 , Clive James, North Face of Soho , Picador 2007, p. 106:
(obsolete) To bring into disrepute.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
To assert or consider that someone is the cause of something negative; to place blame, to attribute responsibility (for something negative or for doing something negative).
As verbs the difference between dispute and blame
is that dispute is while blame is .dispute
English
(wikipedia dispute)Noun
(en noun)- Addicted more / To contemplation and profound dispute .
- (Defoe)
Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
(disput)- Some residents disputed the proposal, saying it was based more on emotion than fact.
- to dispute assertions or arguments
- to seize goods under the disputed authority of writs of assistance
- to dispute the possession of the ground with the Spaniards
- Dispute it [grief] like a man.
Derived terms
* industrial disputeExternal links
* * ----blame
English
Etymology 1
(etyl), from (etyl)Noun
(-)- Blame came from all directions.
- The blame for starting the fire lies with the arsonist.
- They accepted the blame , but it was an accident.
Derived terms
* put the blame onSee also
* faultEtymology 2
(etyl), from (etyl) blasmer, from . Compare (blaspheme)Verb
(blam)- though my loue be not so lewdly bent, / As those ye blame , yet may it nought appease / My raging smart [...].
- These peculiarities of Dorothea's character caused Mr. Brooke to be all the more blamed in neighboring families for not securing some middle-aged lady as guide and companion to his nieces.
- That was the year that Sir Richard was writing his volume on Domestic Life in Tartary . The critics all blamed it for a lack of concentration.
- I covered the serious programmes too, and indeed, right from the start, I spent more time praising than blaming .
- For knighthoods loue, do not so foule a deed, / Ne blame your honour with so shamefull vaunt / Of vile reuenge.
- The arsonist was blamed for the fire.
