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Remedy vs Chevisance - What's the difference?

remedy | chevisance |

As nouns the difference between remedy and chevisance

is that remedy is something that corrects or counteracts while chevisance is (label) help, remedy; a resource or solution.

As a verb remedy

is to provide or serve as a remedy for.

remedy

English

(wikipedia remedy)

Noun

(remedies)
  • Something that corrects or counteracts.
  • (legal) The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.
  • A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease.
  • * 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
    • He said to himself that no doubt they would save her; the doctors would discover some remedy surely. He remembered all the miraculous cures he had been told about. Then she appeared to him dead. She was there; before his eyes, lying on her back in the middle of the road. He reined up, and the hallucination disappeared.

    Derived terms

    * remediless

    Verb

  • To provide or serve as a remedy for.
  • * 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. ยง 27.
    • Nor is geometry, when taken into the assistance of natural philosophy, ever able to remedy this defect,
    Synonyms
    * redress * help * correct * cure * See also

    Related terms

    * remediable * remedial

    External links

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    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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