Dispute vs Relitigate - What's the difference?
dispute | relitigate |
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
(intransitive) To litigate again; to sue or pursue legal remedy a second or further time.
To dispute, debate, contest again.
*2010 , Lexington, The Economist , 5 Aug 2010:
*:Like Mr bin Laden, Mr Gingrich is apparently still relitigating the victories and defeats of religious wars fought in Europe and the Middle East centuries ago.
In transitive terms the difference between dispute and relitigate
is that dispute is to make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss while relitigate is to dispute, debate, contest again.As verbs the difference between dispute and relitigate
is that dispute is to contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another while relitigate is to litigate again; to sue or pursue legal remedy a second or further time.As a noun dispute
is an argument or disagreement, a failure to agree.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.