Both Uses of
dispute
in
Sense and Sensibility
- No one could dispute her right to come; the house was her husband's from the moment of his father's decease; but the indelicacy of her conduct was so much the greater, and to a woman in Mrs. Dashwood's situation, with only common feelings, must have been highly unpleasing;— but in HER mind there was a sense of honor so keen, a generosity so romantic, that any offence of the kind, by whomsoever given or received, was to her a source of immoveable disgust.†
Chpt 1
- But I was willing to shew you that I had not forgot our old disputes.†
Chpt 17 *
Definition:
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(dispute as in: their border dispute) disagreement, argument, or conflict