2 meanings, 12 uses
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1 —2 uses as in:
their border dispute
Definition
disagreement, argument, or conflict
- What! have you no monks who teach, who dispute, who govern, who cabal, and who burn people that are not of their opinion?Chapter 18 (34% in)
dispute = argue or debate
- In the middle of this dispute they heard the report of cannon; it redoubled every instant.Chapter 20 (56% in)
There are no more uses of "dispute" flagged with this meaning in Candide.
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2 —10 uses as in:
She disputes his claim.
Definition
challenge, argue about, or fight over
- "Let us work," said Martin, "without disputing; it is the only way to render life tolerable."Chapter 30 (89% in)
disputing = arguing
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- At length I saw all our Italian women, and my mother herself, torn, mangled, massacred, by the monsters who disputed over them.Chapter 11 (85% in)
- They disputed fifteen successive days, and on the last of those fifteen days, they were as far advanced as on the first.Chapter 20 (93% in)
- While they were disputing on this important subject and waiting for Cunegonde, Candide saw a young Theatin friar in St. Mark's Piazza, holding a girl on his arm.Chapter 24 (20% in)
- Candide disputed the point a little, but with discretion.Chapter 25 (27% in)
- How can I have any esteem for a writer who has spoiled Tasso's hell and the devil, who transforms Lucifer sometimes into a toad and other times into a pigmy, who makes him repeat the same things a hundred times, who makes him dispute on theology, who, by a serious imitation of Ariosto's comic invention of firearms, represents the devils cannonading in heaven?Chapter 25 (78% in)
- We were continually disputing, and received twenty lashes with a bull's pizzle when the concatenation of universal events brought you to our galley, and you were good enough to ransom us.Chapter 28 (88% in)
- While Candide, the Baron, Pangloss, Martin, and Cacambo were relating their several adventures, were reasoning on the contingent or non-contingent events of the universe, disputing on effects and causes, on moral and physical evil, on liberty and necessity, and on the consolations a slave may feel even on a Turkish galley, they arrived at the house of the Transylvanian prince on the banks of the Propontis.Chapter 29 (11% in)
- Candide, Martin, and Pangloss sometimes disputed about morals and metaphysics.Chapter 30 (20% in)
- Such spectacles as these increased the number of their dissertations; and when they did not dispute time hung so heavily upon their hands, that one day the old woman ventured to say to them: "I want to know which is worse..."Chapter 30 (26% in)
There are no more uses of "dispute" flagged with this meaning in Candide.
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