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Dispute vs Chevisance - What's the difference?

dispute | chevisance |

As a verb dispute

is .

As a noun chevisance is

(label) help, remedy; a resource or solution.

dispute

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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
  • Addicted more / To contemplation and profound dispute .
  • Contest; struggle; quarrel.
  • (Defoe)

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (disput)
  • 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.
  • Some residents disputed the proposal, saying it was based more on emotion than fact.
  • 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.
  • to dispute assertions or arguments
  • * Bancroft
  • to seize goods under the disputed authority of writs of assistance
  • To strive or contend about; to contest.
  • * Prescott
  • to dispute the possession of the ground with the Spaniards
  • (obsolete) To struggle against; to resist.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Dispute it [grief] like a man.

    Derived terms

    * industrial dispute

    chevisance

    English

    Alternative forms

    * chevisaunce (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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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