Dispute vs Tourney - 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
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* Tennyson
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(archaic) To take part in a tournament.
*1843 , '', book 2, ch. XV, ''Practical — Devotional
Dispute is a related term of tourney.
As verbs the difference between dispute and tourney
is that dispute is while tourney is (archaic) to take part in a tournament.As a noun tourney is
tournament.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
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English
Noun
(en noun)- And let the recreant traitors seek
- My tourney court.
- (Francis Bacon)
- We hold a tourney here to-morrow morn, / And there is scantly time for half the work.
Verb
(en verb)- Here indeed, perhaps, by rule of antagonisms, may be the place to mention that, after ’s return, there was a liberty of tourneying given to the fighting men of England […]
