All 20 Uses of
dispute
in
Ben Hur
- The sand, so crusted on the surface that it broke into rattling flakes at every step, held undisputed sway.†
Chpt 1.1 *undisputed = not challenged, argued about, or fought overstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in undisputed means not and reverses the meaning of disputed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- From the multitude of subjects about which the schools were disputing, I separated them, as alone worth the labor of solution; for I thought there was a relation between God and the soul as yet unknown.†
Chpt 1.3disputing = challenging, arguing about, or fighting over
- Hewing wood and sawing plank leave me no time to take part in the disputes of parties.†
Chpt 1.8disputes = disagreements, arguments, or conflicts
- The peace of synagogues was sometimes broken by brawling disputants, but that of the khans never.†
Chpt 1.9disputants = those involved in challenging, arguing about, or fighting over something
- Yet later, when Octavius disputed for the empire, Messala supported him.†
Chpt 2.2disputed = challenged, argued about, or fought over
- His subject was Disputation.†
Chpt 2.2disputation = a debate or formal argument
- There is no law by which to determine the superiority of nations; hence the vanity of the claim, and the idleness of disputes about it.†
Chpt 2.5 *disputes = disagreements, arguments, or conflicts
- Now, in those days there were lawyers in the cloisters of the Temple who disputed vehemently, saying the children of servants bound forever took the condition of their parents; but the Prince Hur was a man righteous in all things, and an interpreter of the law after the straitest sect, though not of them.†
Chpt 4.4disputed = challenged, argued about, or fought over
- Doubtless, it will be understood from this that there was much argument among the Jews themselves about the Messiah, and so there was; but the disputation was all limited to one point, and one only—when would he come?†
Chpt 4.15disputation = a debate or formal argument
- Disappointment showed plainly on Ben-Hur's face—his head drooped; and if he was not convinced, he yet felt himself incapable that moment of disputing the opinion of the Egyptian.†
Chpt 4.16disputing = challenging, arguing about, or fighting over
- The question was put solemnly, and long after midnight the company sat and debated it; Simonides being yet unwilling to give up his understanding of the sayings of the prophets, and Ben-Hur contending that the elder disputants were both right—that the Nazarene was the Redeemer, as claimed by Balthasar, and also the destined king the merchant would have.†
Chpt 8.2disputants = those involved in challenging, arguing about, or fighting over something
- Had such thing been possible with him, still the bitter disputation always excited by the simplest display of the Master's curative gift would have sufficed to keep his curiosity alive.†
Chpt 8.4disputation = a debate or formal argument
- At no previous time, whether when Balthasar was plying him with arguments, or when miracles were being done before his face, had the disputed nature of the Nazarene been so plainly set before him.†
Chpt 8.6disputed = challenged, argued about, or fought over
- The final union of the tribes did not settle the dispute thus begun.†
Chpt 1.7
- So it happens, O my son, that of the whole world our Israel alone can dispute the superiority of the Greek, and with him contest the palm of original genius.†
Chpt 2.5
- In the midst of the dispute the strangers arrived.†
Chpt 4.8
- There was promise of a dispute; seeing which, Messala interposed.†
Chpt 4.12
- Thus early arose the questions which were to follow the Child to his end, and survive him on earth—incomprehensible in his day, a dispute in this—an enigma to all who do not or cannot understand that every man is two in one—a deathless Soul and a mortal Body.†
Chpt 4.17
- The generous dispute was long continued.†
Chpt 5.15
- Knowing so much, shall I dispute with myself or you about the unnecessaries—about the form of my soul?†
Chpt 7.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(dispute as in: their border dispute) disagreement, argument, or conflict
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(dispute as in: She disputes his claim.) challenge, argue about, or fight over