Both Uses of
dispute
in
Mansfield Park
- ...and that house receive such an air as to make its owner be set down as the great landholder of the parish by every creature travelling the road; especially as there is no real squire's house to dispute the point—
Chpt 25 *dispute = challenge (argue or disagree with)
- As yet Sir Thomas had seen nothing to remark in Mr. Crawford's behaviour; but when the whist-table broke up at the end of the second rubber, and leaving Dr. Grant and Mrs. Norris to dispute over their last play, he became a looker-on at the other, he found his niece the object of attentions, or rather of professions, of a somewhat pointed character.
Chpt 25dispute = battle or contest
Definition:
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(dispute as in: She disputes his claim.) challenge, argue about, or fight over