Dispute vs Chevisance - What's the difference?
dispute | chevisance |
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
(label) Help, remedy; a resource or solution.
(label) The raising of money; money raised or lent for some purpose.
(label) Chivalrous adventure.
*, II.ix:
*:Fortune, the foe of famous cheuisaunce / Seldome (said Guyon ) yields to vertue aide, / But in her way throwes mischiefe and mischaunce, / Whereby her course is stopt, and passage staid.
*1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), Book IV, lxxxi:
*:Ah! be it not pardie declared in France, / Or elsewhere told where court'sy is in prize, // That we forsook so fair a chevisance , / For doubt or fear that might from fight arise.
(label) A bargain or contract; an agreement about a matter in dispute, such as a debt; a business compact.
(label) An unlawful agreement or contract.
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As a verb dispute
is .As a noun chevisance is
(label) help, remedy; a resource or solution.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.