All 11 Uses of
dispute
in
Middlemarch
- "I hope I shall have nothing to do with clerical disputes," said Lydgate.†
Chpt 2 (definition 1) *
- After they had examined the figure, and had walked on finishing their dispute, they had parted, Ladislaw lingering behind while Naumann had gone into the Hall of Statues where he again saw Dorothea, and saw her in that brooding abstraction which made her pose remarkable.†
Chpt 2 (definition 1)
- The result of all was so far from displeasing to Mr. Casaubon, that he arranged for the purchase of the picture in which Saint Thomas Aquinas sat among the doctors of the Church in a disputation too abstract to be represented, but listened to with more or less attention by an audience above.†
Chpt 2 (definition 2)
- His friend Naumann had desired him to take charge of the "Dispute"—the picture painted for Mr. Casaubon, with whose permission, and Mrs. Casaubon's, Will would convey it to Lowick in person.†
Chpt 3 (definition 1)
- Such things had been known as forged wills and disputed wills, which seemed to have the golden-hazy advantage of somehow enabling non-legatees to live out of them.†
Chpt 3 (definition 2)
- Disputation is not amusing to cherubs.†
Chpt 5 (definition 2) *
- And that made you begin to dispute with Mr. Ladislaw.†
Chpt 5 (definition 1)
- When he was gone, his picture of Ladislaw lingered in her mind and disputed the ground with that question of the Lowick living.†
Chpt 5 (definition 2)
- I find that the first will would not have been legally good after the burning of the last; it would not have stood if it had been disputed, and you may be sure it would have been disputed.†
Chpt 5 (definition 2)
- I find that the first will would not have been legally good after the burning of the last; it would not have stood if it had been disputed, and you may be sure it would have been disputed.†
Chpt 5 (definition 2)
- Ben and Letty Garth, who were uncle and aunt before they were well in their teens, disputed much as to whether nephews or nieces were more desirable; Ben contending that it was clear girls were good for less than boys, else they would not be always in petticoats, which showed how little they were meant for; whereupon Letty, who argued much from books, got angry in replying that God made coats of skins for both Adam and Eve alike—also it occurred to her that in the East the men too wore…†
Chpt Fin. (definition 2)
Definitions:
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(1) (dispute as in: their border dispute) disagreement, argument, or conflict
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(2) (dispute as in: She disputes his claim.) challenge, argue about, or fight over