All 3 Uses of
dispute
in
The House of Mirth
- If she had appeared to be catching a train, he might have inferred that he had come on her in the act of transition between one and another of the country-houses which disputed her presence after the close of the Newport season; but her desultory air perplexed him.†
Chpt 1.1 *
- It was the one subject which enabled him to forget himself, or allowed him, rather, to remember himself without constraint, because he was at home in it, and could assert a superiority that there were few to dispute.†
Chpt 1.2
- There are too many ladies to dispute the privilege with me.†
Chpt 1.7 *
Definitions:
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(dispute as in: She disputes his claim.) challenge, argue about, or fight over
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(dispute as in: their border dispute) disagreement, argument, or conflict