All 24 Uses of
dispute
in
Anna Karenina
- Levin had come across the magazine articles about which they were disputing, and had read them, interested in them as a development of the first principles of science, familiar to him as a natural science student at the university.†
Part 1 (definition 1)
- Levin's appearance at the beginning of the winter, his frequent visits, and evident love for Kitty, had led to the first serious conversations between Kitty's parents as to her future, and to disputes between them.†
Part 1 (definition 2)
- The panics that had been lived through, the thoughts that had been brooded over, the money that had been wasted, and the disputes with her husband over marrying the two elder girls, Darya and Natalia!†
Part 1 (definition 2)
- "I don't even dispute it."†
Part 1 (definition 2)
- Of course, that was nonsense; but there was a dispute over it—over you.†
Part 2 (definition 2)
- An arbitrator of disputes is no use to me.†
Part 3 (definition 2) *
- "Whatever was it I was disputing about?" he wondered.†
Part 3 (definition 1) *
- After a prolonged dispute the matter was decided by the peasants taking these eleven stacks, reckoning them as fifty loads each.†
Part 3 (definition 2)
- Stepan Arkadyevitch was disputing with Alexey Alexandrovitch's servant, and insisting on being announced.†
Part 4 (definition 1)
- It is the accepted view now that real culture must be purely classical; but we see most intense disputes on each side of the question, and there is no denying that the opposite camp has strong points in its favor.†
Part 4 (definition 2)
- Levin had often noticed in discussions between the most intelligent people that after enormous efforts, and an enormous expenditure of logical subtleties and words, the disputants finally arrived at being aware that what they had so long been struggling to prove to one another had long ago, from the beginning of the argument, been known to both, but that they liked different things, and would not define what they liked for fear of its being attacked.†
Part 4 (definition 1)
- Sometimes, too, he had experienced the opposite, expressing at last what he liked himself, which he was devising arguments to defend, and, chancing to express it well and genuinely, he had found his opponent at once agreeing and ceasing to dispute his position.†
Part 4 (definition 2)
- They were disputing about the misappropriation of certain sums and the laying of certain pipes, and Sergey Ivanovitch was very cutting to two members, and said something at great length with an air of triumph; and another member, scribbling something on a bit of paper, began timidly at first, but afterwards answered him very viciously and delightfully.†
Part 4 (definition 1)
- When the princess came to them, they were sitting side by side on the chest, sorting the dresses and disputing over Kitty's wanting to give Dunyasha the brown dress she had been wearing when Levin proposed to her, while he insisted that that dress must never be given away, but Dunyasha must have the blue one.†
Part 5 (definition 1)
- They did not hear the loud remarks and disputes that followed, some maintaining he had stepped on first, and others that both had stepped on together.†
Part 5 (definition 2)
- You're fool enough at all times, and when you start explaining things in Italian you're a fool three times as foolish," he said after a long dispute.†
Part 5 (definition 2)
- It was as though he assumed a high degree of importance in himself that could not be disputed, because he had long nails and a stylish cap, and everything else to correspond; but this could be forgiven for the sake of his good nature and good breeding.†
Part 6 (definition 1)
- Levin was surprised that they should dispute upon this subject so long, especially as, when he asked Sergey Ivanovitch whether he supposed that money had been misappropriated, Sergey Ivanovitch answered: "Oh, no!†
Part 6 (definition 2)
- Squeezed by the crowding noblemen, he drew near the high table where the marshal of the province, Sviazhsky, and the other leaders were hotly disputing about something.†
Part 6 (definition 1)
- They were disputing, as far as he could make out, as to the interpretation to be put on the act and the exact meaning of the words: "liable to be called up for trial."†
Part 6 (definition 1)
- Levin did not in the least understand what was the matter, and he marveled at the passion with which it was disputed whether or not the decision about Flerov should be put to the vote.†
Part 6 (definition 1)
- On learning this, the new party had made haste, during the dispute about Flerov, to send some of their men in a sledge to clothe the stripped gentleman, and to bring along one of the intoxicated to the meeting.†
Part 6 (definition 2)
- The question of the possibility of having children had long been a subject of dispute and irritation to her.†
Part 7 (definition 2)
- With my brother there will be none of that aloofness there always used to be between us, there will be no disputes; with Kitty there shall never be quarrels; with the visitor, whoever he may be, I will be friendly and nice; with the servants, with Ivan, it will all be different.†
Part 8 (definition 2)
Definitions:
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(1) (dispute as in: She disputes his claim.) challenge, argue about, or fight over
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(2) (dispute as in: their border dispute) disagreement, argument, or conflict