variancen.

Brit.

/ˈvɛːrɪəns/, U.S.

/ˈvɛriəns/

Forms: Middle English– variance (1500s Scottish varians, 1500s vareance), Middle English–1500s variaunce (Middle English -auns); Middle English–1600s varyaunce (Middle English variawnce, varianse, 1500s variance); Middle English wari-, warya(u)nce; Middle English veryaunce ( fery-), weryauns, weryouns; 1500s vari-, Scottish warience.

Etymology: < Old French variance, -aunce, -ence (= Italian varianza ), < Latin variantia , < variāre to vary v.

I. Senses relating to change or variation.

a. The fact or state of undergoing change or alteration; tendency to vary or become different; variation.

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the world > time > change > [noun]

wendingeOE

changing?c1225

stirringa1240

wrixlinga1240

changec1325

variancec1340

transmutationc1380

varyingc1380

whileness1382

translationc1384

alterationa1398

mutationa1398

removinga1425

revolutiona1425

shiftingc1440

changementc1450

muance1480

commutation1509

altry1527

transition1545

turning1548

novation1549

immutation?c1550

alterance1559

alienation1562

turn?1567

vicissitude1603

refraction1614

fermentationa1661

diabasis1672

parallax1677

motion1678

aliation1775

transience1946

c1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 1423 God ordayns here..Sere variaunce..Of þe tyms and wedirs and sesons, In taken of þe worldes condicions, Þat swa unstable er and variande.

c1400 Brut xxxiv [It] was callede þe citee of Ludstan; but now þat name is chaungede þrouȝ variance of lettres, and now is callede London.

?c1425 (c1390) G. Chaucer Fortune 45 Thou born art in my regne of varyaunce. Abowte the wheel with oother most thow dryue.

1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) vi. l. 100 Bot this fals warld with mony doubill cast, In it is nocht bot werray wariance.

a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Fiiii She [sc. Fortune] dawnsyth varyaunce with mutabylyte Nowe all in welth forthwith in pouerte.

1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Gloucester v Any man to assure, In state uncarefull of Fortunes varyaunce.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 305 It being reasonable for every man to vary his opinion according to the variance of his reason.

1762 W. Falconer Shipwreck i. 11 By this, magnetic variance is explor'd.

1840 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 1 iii. 282 The variance in the produce of the wheats I attribute to the nature of the soil.

1859 J. E. Tennent Ceylon II. vii. vii. 260 The temperature..ranges from 36° to 81° (with a mean daily variance of 11°).

1888 Harper's Mag. Apr. 752 Even as the blood loses and replaces its corpuscles, without a variance in the volume and vigor of its current.

†b. Inconstancy in persons; variableness, changeableness. Obsolete.

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the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun]

unsteadfastnessa1300

falsenessc1330

unstablenessc1380

varyingc1380

inconstancec1386

variance1390

geriness1412

instabilityc1422

changeability?a1425

mutabilitya1425

changec1425

changeableness1447

unconstancec1449

unstabilitya1470

mutableness1481

unsureness1481

instableness1483

variation1509

inconstancy1526

shittleness1530

fickleness1548

unconstancy1548

unconstantness1551

inconstantness?a1562

pliableness1562

fast and loose1575

volubility1603

levity1604

unconstability1611

flexibleness1623

vagrancy1642

self-inconsistency1655

inconsistency1665

flittingnessa1680

easiness1705

inconsistence1713

versatility1755

contrariety1762

vibration1785

changefulness1791

girouettism1825

pirouettism1839

weathercockism1843

pirouettiveness1844

volatileness1849

unfixity1856

ficklety1888

1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 22 Ther is deceipte in his balance, And al is that the variance Of ous, that scholde ous betre avise.

c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 176 He spekith of a variaunce and of a chaunging..in mannis wil.

c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn l. 1135 The most parte of Room held it for dotage, And had muche mervell of his variaunce.

a1505 R. Henryson Test. Cresseid 223 in Poems (1981) 118 In hir face semit greit variance, Quhyles perfyte treuth and quhyles inconstance.

a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 161 Luve..Quhilk is begun with inconstance And endis nocht but variance.

†c. In the phrase without variance (Scottish. but variance). Obsolete.The phrase occurs also in sense 3b.

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the mind > will > decision > constancy or steadfastness > [adverb]

anredlyOE

fastlyOE

steadfastly?c1225

stifflyc1290

stably1297

steadfasta1300

stoutly1303

steevely1340

sadlya1375

sturdilyc1374

firm1377

surelyc1380

like a flint1382

tough1398

firmlyc1425

unmovablyc1425

but variancec1430

sad?c1430

immovably1435

toughlyc1450

affirmlya1513

wishly1530

constantly1534

steadily1540

fall back (also flat), fall edge?1553

staidly1571

fixedly1605

indeclinably1624

undeclinably1662

unfalteringly1665

unswervingly1805

unwaveringly1830

indomitably1837

rockily1846

unbendingly1847

indivertibly1853

unshakeablya1864

undyingly1881

unshakenly1882

adamantly1897

c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 10 We say offte hert, withowte variaunce, Sovereigne lord, welcome, welcome ye be!

1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iv. l. 42 Wallace..spak to thaim with manly contenance; In fayr afforme he said but wariance [etc.].

a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 86 He that with gud lyfe and trewth, But varians or vder slewth, Dois evir mair with ane maister dwell.

a. The fact or quality of varying or differing; difference, divergence, discrepancy.

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the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [noun]

diversitya1340

difference1340

variancec1374

distancea1382

unlikenessa1387

variationc1405

discrepation?a1425

distinction1435

severaltyc1449

unlikelinessc1450

dissemblance1463

unlikelihood1483

alteritya1500

indifferencec1503

discrepancea1522

dissimilitude1532

differency1542

variety1552

discernment1570

disparitya1575

discrepancy1579

otherness1587

discernance1592

imparity1608

disanalogy1610

disresemblance1622

dislikeness1623

diff1624

inconformity1625

irresemblance1628

variousness1628

odds1642

disparation1654

aliety1656

disparility1656

disparateness1659

severality1664

nonconformity1672

unconformableness1712

dissimilarity1715

differentness1727

differ1787

allogeneitya1834

otherwiseness1890

otherliness1937

diversion-

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > [noun]

discordance1340

variancec1374

discorda1387

disconvenience?a1425

unsuingc1425

disaccordancec1436

unaccordancec1449

inconveniencec1460

discrepancea1464

difformness1547

disagreeance1548

disagreeing1548

jar1548

disagreement1551

disagreeableness1570

dissonancy1584

discordancy1587

discoherencea1600

disconveniency1601

disharmonya1602

dissent1603

dissonancea1604

incongruency1604

incongruence1610

incongruity1612

discongruity1624

inconformity1625

discorrespondencya1641

inconsonancy1650

inconsistence1651

dissidy1657

unagreeableness1658

discomposure1659

disconsonancy1659

uncorrespondency1659

inconveniency1662

unconsonancy1665

incorrespondence1667

oddness1680

inconsistency1699

incongruousness1727

irreconcilementa1737

discrepancy1748

incoincidence?1798

inaccordance1808

inconsonance1811

inaccordancy1817

incorrespondency1817

cacophony1831

divergence1837

disaccord1871

c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde v. 762 For that that som men blamen ever yit, Lo, other maner folk commenden it. And as for me, for alle swich variaunce, Felicitie clepe I my suffisaunce.

c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. I. 28 For alle Cristene men shulden be of oo wille, and variaunce in siche sectis makiþ variaunce in wille.

c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xiii. 60 In many poyntes þai vary fra vs and fra oure faith. All þaire variaunce ware to mykil to tell.

1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) ii. 277 Ye haue not many chaunges [of service] after the varyaunce of feastes,..as the comon seruyce of the churche vseth.

1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 195 So is there variance between written storie, & common speeche, touching y^e true place of y^e building.

1614 R. Carew Excellencie Eng. Tongue in W. Camden Remaines (rev. ed.) 41 Words, that in their originall are Latine, and yet (saue some small variance in their terminations) fall out al one with the French, Dutch, and English.

1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe IV. ii. 136 It is evident that variance of opinion proves error somewhere.

1846 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Wks. I. 243/2 The variance of knowledge and will, where no passion is the stimulant.

1892 Law Times 92 156/1 Whether variance between the provisional and complete specification of a patent..is still a ground of invalidity.

†b. Variety. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [noun]

manifoldnesseOE

serenessa1300

diversityc1340

sundernessc1390

diversenessa1400

seretya1400

variancea1400

sundryhead?a1425

sundrinessa1450

variety1548

multivariety1601

diversifying1611

inconstancy1646

heterogeneity1651

variousness1651

heterogeneousness1662

variegation1668

multifariousness1684

miscellaneousness1727

miscellaneity1778

versatility1802

omnifariousness1806

motleyness1819

many-headedness1847

heterology1854

unhomogeneity1862

diversitude1870

variedness1897

polycentricity1915

inhomogeneity1916

a1400–50 Alexander 4632 Mekill variaunce of vertus enveronis oure saules.

a. Law. A difference or discrepancy between two statements or documents.

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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > [noun] > inconsistency or contradiction > an instance of being inconsistent > specific between statements, documents, etc.

variance1429

jar1548

1429 Rolls of Parl. IV. 346 For whiche diversite and variaunce of the seide name.

1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) ix. l. 118 Thar may na band be maid so sufficians Bot ay in it thai fynd a warians.

a1592 R. Greene Sc. Hist. Iames IV (1598) v. sig. I3 Law. This matter craues a variance not a speech.

a1626 F. Bacon Elements Common Lawes (1630) 98 So if I graunt you..a way according to the first plot intended, whereof a table is annexed to these presents, and there be some speciall variance betweene the table and the originall plot [etc.].

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Variance, an alteration of something formerly laid in a Plea.

1817 W. Selwyn Abridgem. Law Nisi Prius (ed. 4) II. 1107 Advantage cannot be taken of a variance between the plaint and the declaration in the superior court.

1827 J. S. Mill in J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. V. ix. vi. v. 598 The designation..by the name of St. Ethelburgh, instead of Saint Ethelburgha, was held to be (as lawyers term it) a fatal variance.

1835 Tomlins Law Dict. (ed. 4) (at cited word) If there is a variance between the declaration and the writ, it is error; and the writ should formerly abate.

b. In general use: a difference or discrepancy; a discriminating or divergent feature.

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the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [noun] > a variant or variation

variance1497

vary1600

variousness1628

varying1628

variegation1668

modification1669

diversificationa1676

variation1699

variant1849

1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 83 The particuler variances betwene the Indentures and book of shipping.

1511 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 325 There have bene greate variaunce now of late in taking of principales.

a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) i. xii. sig. C.iii That it is a righte heauye thyng to see suche varyaunces in oure beliefe rise and growe among oure selfe.

1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 656 Though in the preceding statements there is an apparent variance,..the variations may have arisen [etc.].

1859 J. E. Tennent Ceylon I. Introd. xxxv I have also to apologise for variances in the spelling of proper names.

1884 Law Times 77 27/1 The variances..which have arisen between the real property law of the United States and England.

†c. Divergence from the truth. Obsolete.

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > [noun]

leasec888

falsec1000

falsedom1297

falsehood1297

bula1300

gabbinga1300

variancea1450

falset1482

mendacity?1540

unverityc1572

truthlessness1662

mendaciousness1829

untruthfulness1830

unveracity1839

inveracity1864

untruism1868

falseship-

a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Merlin (1904) I. l. 706 How scholde j ȝeven the ony penaunce, Whanne j knowe wel thou makest variawnce?

a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Merlin (1904) I. l. 748 Thou..forsakest alle Lecherie, with-owten variaunce.

d. U.S. Law. An official dispensation from a building regulation.

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society > law > legislation > [noun] > cessation or suspension > in a particular case > dispensation from building regulation

variance1925

1925 New Hampsh. Public Laws xlii. 191 To authorize upon appeal in specific cases such variance from the terms of the ordinance as will not be contrary to the public interest.

1938 Atlantic Reporter CC. 521 A literal enforcement of the ordinance may be disregarded to permit a variance, while conditions for an exception must be found in the ordinance and may not be varied.

1973 N.Y. Law Jrnl. 19 July 13/7 Judgment is granted in favor of the petitioner..directing the issuance of a variance for the installation of a second kitchen in the premises.

1977 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 3 Sept. 47/3 The only hotel on the island [sc. Bermuda] ever given a variance to be built on a hilltop. The permission took 12 years to get.

e. Economics. The difference between actual and expected costs, profits, output, etc., in a statistical analysis.

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society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > forecast > actual or variant result

out-turn1801

variance1964

1964 Times Rev. Industry Apr. 8/2 An expression of the variation between standard cost and actual achieved cost is called ‘variance’. In 1951 under manual control the variance was 31.6 per cent.

1967 D. Goch in G. Wills & Yearsley Handbk. Managem. Technol. 145 The following example will illustrate the application of this method of variance analysis to an imaginary product.

1974 Terminol. Managem. & Financial Accountancy (Inst. Cost & Managem. Accountants) 13 Variance analysis, that part of variance accounting..which relates to the analysis into constituent parts of variances between planned and actual performance.

1978 Accountants' Rec. Dec. 15/1 Causal factors of the sales variance have been established by analysis... Sales variance analysis..provides data enabling management to reconsider its marketing philosophies.

4. The fact of changing, altering, or varying from a state, opinion, etc.; an instance of this.

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the world > time > change > [noun] > from a state, opinion, etc.

variance1415

evolution1771

1415 T. Hoccleve To Sir J. Oldcastle 253 Holsum to thee now were a variaunce Fro the feend to our lord god.

c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 45 After variaunce Fro lif to dethe.

1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes iv, in Wks. 271/1 In this point I assure you faythfully, there is no maner change or varyaunce from his oppinion.

1792 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) III. 460 The first and only instance of variance from the former port of my resolution, I was duped into.

5. Statistics. The mean of the squares of the deviations of a set of quantities; the square of the standard deviation.

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the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [noun] > distribution > variability or spread > measures of

quartile deviation1894

standard deviation1895

s.d.1902

subrange1903

range1911

variance1918

span1962

sigma1978

1918 R. A. Fisher in Trans. Royal Soc. Edinb. 52 399 It is..desirable in analysing the causes of variability to deal with the square of the standard deviation as the measure of variability. We shall term this quantity the Variance.

1948 New Biol. 4 34 Measurements of the resting blood pressure of a group of fifty young men... We compute the mean blood pressure and the variance of the observed values, the variance being a measure of scatter of values around the mean.

1970 Nature 25 July 376/2 Analysis of variance gave highly significant population and fertilizer effects.

1977 R. E. Megill Introd. Risk Anal. iii. 23 Because all values are squared in the variance the standard deviation is larger than the mean deviation.

II. Senses relating to disagreement or discord.

a. The state or fact of disagreeing or falling out; discord, dissension, contention, debate. (Cf. senses Phrases 1, Phrases 2.)

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society > society and the community > dissent > [noun]

unsibeOE

unsaughta1122

un-i-sibc1275

conteckc1290

discordingc1325

distancec1325

discordance1340

dissensionc1384

batea1400

discordc1425

variancec1425

variationc1485

disgreement?1504

distinction1520

factiona1538

jar1546

variety1546

disagreeance1548

disagreeing1548

disagreement1548

misliking1564

odds1567

mislikea1586

discordancy1587

disagree1589

distancy1595

dissent1596

dislike1598

secting1598

dichostasy1606

fraction1609

dissentation1623

ill blood1624

misintelligence1632

clashing1642

misunderstanding1642

discomposure1659

disjointinga1715

uneasiness1744

friction1760

misunderstand1819

unharmony1866

inharmony1867

trouble at (the or t') mill1967

the mind > emotion > hatred > state of variance or disunion > [noun]

unsaughtnessa1000

unsaughta1122

schismc1425

variancec1425

variationc1485

variety1546

breach1745

strain1884

society > society and the community > dissent > [noun] > state or instance of

distancec1300

differencea1387

variancec1425

different?1483

differinga1525

displeasure1550

differ1566

distaste1621

disgusta1665

disaccommodationa1676

differency1707

fallout1725

collision1839

upset1887

contretemps1961

c1425 J. Lydgate Assembly of Gods 409 In came Dyscord to haue made varyaunce.

1477 Rolls of Parl. VI. 184/1 If variance falle betwixt any fynder, affermyng ayenst any other persone.

1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xxiv. 89 [It] maketh theim to enterteyne well togider wythoute varyaunce.

1535 Act 27 Hen. VIII c. 26 §1 Great discorde, variance, debate,..& sedicion hath growen betwene his said subiectes.

1598 R. Bernard tr. Terence Hecyra iv. iv, in Terence in Eng. 374 When you seeke forged matter to cause strife and varience.

1639 G. Daniel Ecclus. xxvii. 43 Murder attends the variance of the Proud.

1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. ii. 192 She makes Variance betwixt Rulers and Subjects, betwixt Parents and Children.

a1708 W. Beveridge Thes. Theologicus (1711) III. 193 What is variance? A sin opposed to amity.

1770 H. Brooke Fool of Quality V. xvii. 53 If any attempted to..defraud me of my property, I yielded it without variance.

1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) IV. 293 It would be necessary for a time to keep up a show of variance between them.

a1854 H. Reed Lect. Eng. Lit. (1878) v. 159 The bloody variance of a feudal nobility.

1864 C. M. Yonge Trial II. 152 I never saw a child with such an instinct for preventing variance, or so full of tact and pretty ways.

in combination.1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Variaunce makers, litistonsores.

b. Opposition or antagonism to something. rare.

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the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > [noun]

contrariositya1340

adversitya1382

champertyc1386

contrariousness1398

thwartingc1430

contrariancec1450

contrariness?1530

withsitting1532

oppugning1535

opposition1548

oppugnation1563

thwartness1577

adverseness1580

crossing1580

breasting1594

antipathy1601

oppugnancy1609

affrontment1611

opposure1611

thortera1614

contrariancya1617

obstancy1616

oppositeness1619

contropposition1621

obstrigillation1623

opposing1624

hostility1632

opposal1638

crossness1641

affront1642

aversion1651

oppugnance1657

shock1664

opponency1727

counteraction1750

antagonism1797

throwing1816

oppositiveness1824

kick1839

variance1842

opposedness1853

againstness1909

hornet1921

adversariness1970

oppositionality1989

1842 H. E. Manning Serm. i. 16 An energetic variance of will to the mind of God.

1875 H. E. Manning Internal Mission of Holy Ghost viii. 210 We have used our wills for all manner of conscious variance to His holy will.

a. A disagreement, quarrel, or falling out; a dispute.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > hatred > quarrel or falling out > [noun]

slit1390

variancec1425

quarrellingc1460

falling out1539

quarrel1566

feud1568

breach1573

rupture1583

outcast1620

outfall1647

outfallingc1650

fallout1725

split1729

break-off1860

c1425 J. Lydgate Assembly of Gods 244 Wyll ye agre that Phebe your mastresse May haue the guydyng of your varyaunce?

1453 Rolls of Parl. V. 265/1 To make variaunces and commotion betwene you..and youre true people.

1473 J. Warkworth Chron. (Camden) 6 As thei went togedere..there felle in a varyaunce for ther logynge.

1541 R. Barnes Wks. (1573) 339/2 Certaine articles, for y^e which there is a varience in the world at this day.

1560 in W. Cotton Elizabethan Guild (1873) 21 Yf any variance or controversie shall at any tyme happen to ryse betwene any youre brethren.

1607 Merry Devil Edmonton Induct. 84 Then thus betwixt vs two this variance ends.

1673 in O. Airy Essex Papers (1890) I. 92 It were too long a Story to tell..y^e originalls and beginnings of their variances.

1782 J. Brown Compend. View Nat. & Revealed Relig. iv. ii. 318 No variance hath ever taken place between God and holy angels.

†b. spec. A difference or dispute leading to legal action between parties. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > quarrel leading to legal action

variance1476

society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > [noun] > dispute leading to litigation

variance1476

1476 Searchers Verdicts in Surtees Misc. (1890) 21 Award & jugement..of a variaunce of a ground be twix John Gilyot Alderman..and Ambrose Preston of London.

1498 Cov. Leet Bk. iii. 595 Where-as diuerse discordes and wariaunces were late moved & had bitwen the seid parties.

1544 R. Tracy Supplycacion to Kynge Henry VIII sig. D To here and iudge suche causes and varyaunces.

1562 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. I. 203 In respect of the variance and debait standand betuix thame.

1733 A. Pope Of Use of Riches 14 Is there a variance? enter but his door, Balk'd are the Courts, and contest is no more.

Phrases

P1. in variance.

†a. Forming a subject of debate, contention, or legal action. Obsolete.

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society > society and the community > dissent > at variance [phrase] > forming subject of dissension

in variance1461

at travers1524

society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > [phrase] > that is subject of legal action

in variance1461

in suita1538

in litigation1856

1461–2 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 4 He is agred..to put all thing that is in variance betwixt you & him in the said Sir John & me.

1468 Searchers Verdicts in Surtees Misc. (1890) 18 A grounde þat stode in variaunce betwix thabbot & Convent.

1534 in I. S. Leadam Select Cases Star Chamber (1911) II. 317 Suche matteres as then were in varyaunce bytwene the seid Mulsho and the seid Selby.

1559 Bp. Scot in J. Strype Ann. Reformation (1824) I. ii. App. x. 32 Consider, I beseche you, the matters here in Varyaunce.

1588 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha (new ed.) iv. iv. 438 One that mooueth pleas or sutes..to the end to have part of the land, or other thing in variance.

1713 M. Henry Disc. Meekness (1822) 118 If meekness rule, matters in variance may be fairly reasoned and adjusted.

†b. At variance; = Phrases 2b. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > hatred > state of variance or disunion > [adjective]

unsaughtc1100

unsomec1275

in variancec1465

at variance1528

at variancea1535

opposed1584

at (or at the, on the) outs1824

c1465 Engl. Chron. (Camden) 64 It happid that with boistez langage.. he fil in variaunce with thaym, and thay fil on him.

1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cccxix. 493 The realme of Englande was as then in great variaunce among themselfe.

P2. at variance.

a. Of persons: In a state of discord, dissension, or enmity.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > dissent > at variance [phrase]

in (also into, on, a) piecesa1275

in strife1398

at traversc1448

at issue1474

at a strife1488

at variancea1535

at square1545

at (a) jar1552

at (or to) daggers' drawing1556

at (a) mutiny1567

in (a) mutiny1567

at wrig-wrag1599

at daggers drawn1668

at (or at the, on the) outs1824

loggerhead1831

at daggers' points1857

at swords' points1890

the mind > emotion > hatred > state of variance or disunion > [adjective]

unsaughtc1100

unsomec1275

in variancec1465

at variance1528

at variancea1535

opposed1584

at (or at the, on the) outs1824

a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 36/1 The Lordes whome he knewe at Varyaunce, hymselfe in hys deathe bedde appeased.

1598 R. Bernard tr. Terence Andria iii. ii, in Terence in Eng. 91 Simo and Davus are at variance about the birth of the child.

1650 T. Bayly Worcesters Apophthegmes 4 The Servants of his house..were never at variance, in point of Religion.

1683 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) II. 363 Whielst the Emperor and Turke are at variance.

a1708 W. Beveridge Thes. Theologicus (1710) II. 337 God and man naturally are at variance.

a1781 R. Watson Hist. Reign Philip III (1783) i. 40 Neither of the courts at variance seemed..inclined to prolong the war.

1836 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece II. 77 The rest of the Peloponnesian allies, seeing the two kings at variance, followed the example of the Corinthians.

1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. ii. 34 The powers who dwell In the celestial mansions are no more At variance.

in extended use.1718 Free-thinker No. 73. 2 I heard a violent Noise, as if the Elements were all at Variance.

b. Const. with, among(st or between, from.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > hatred > state of variance or disunion > [adjective]

unsaughtc1100

unsomec1275

in variancec1465

at variance1528

at variancea1535

opposed1584

at (or at the, on the) outs1824

(a)

1528 in I. S. Leadam Select Cases Star Chamber (1911) II. 177 James hath brokyn with..his Neyburus..and is at gret waryance with them.

1593 Bacchus Bountie C 4 Hee falls at variance with mistris Merigodowne.

1650 Nicholas P. (Camden) 204 And they do their best to set this good Princess at variance with her Mother in Law.

1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 1585 What cause Brought him so soon at variance with himself Among his foes?

1736 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. i. 454 One..with whom you were at Variance.

1782 F. Burney Cecilia IV. viii. ii. 170 It is with myself only I am at variance.

1839 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VI. 39 On all matters as to which he was at variance with the Athenians.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People iii. §5. 138 Every year found the Justiciary at greater variance with Rome.

(b)1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Eng. 78/1 in Chron. I The Britaynes..were at variance amongst themselues.1694 E. Phillips tr. J. Milton Lett. of State 240 We have beheld the Protestant Princes..more and more at weakning variance among themselves.1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. iv. 240 The Breton princes..were at variance between themselves.(c)1885 Times (Weekly ed.) 6 Mar. 11/4 A Government from which..he is totally at variance on points even more important.

c. In the phrases to set (or †fall) at variance.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > hatred > quarrel or falling out > fall out or quarrel [verb]

to fall out?1499

to set (or fall) at variancec1522

society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > quarrel [verb (intransitive)]

threapc1175

disputea1225

thretec1400

varyc1450

fray1465

to fall out1470

to set (or fall) at variancec1522

quarrel1530

square1530

to break a straw1542

to be or to fall at (a) square1545

to fall at jar1552

cowl1556

tuilyie1565

jarl1580

snarl1597

to fall foul1600

to cast out1730

fisticuff1833

spat1848

cagmag1882

rag1889

to part brass-rags1898

hassle1949

blue1955

society > society and the community > dissent > become at variance with [verb (transitive)] > cause (dissension) > set (people) at variance

to-bear971

to cast (in) a bone1498

to set (or fall) at variancec1522

to set by the ears?1566

distract1597

to set outa1610

jarc1615

dissentiate1628

vary1795

(a)

1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. x. f. xiij^v For y am come to sett a man att varyaunce ageynst hys father. [So in later versions.]

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Prov. xvii. B He y^t discloseth the faute, setteth frendes at variaunce.

1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. iv. 77 The Spaniards set Yorke and Stanley at variance.

1655 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Ferney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) I. 557 Pale-faced envye, mixt with hatred and mallice, hath done there best indeavour to sett us att variance.

1713 J. Addison Cato i. iv To disguise our passions, To set our looks at variance with our thoughts.

1755 E. Young Centaur i. 5 Prone to..set things at variance, which, by nature, are allies.

(b)c1522 T. More Treat. Memorare Nouissima in Wks. (1557) I. 89 Now shal ye se men fall at varyance for kissyng of the pax.a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) II. 45 The earle of Lennox and the cardinall was fallin at warience.1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia sig. C4 Mars, and Mercury, fell at variance, whose servant he should be.

d. Of things: In a state of disagreement or difference; conflicting, differing. Usually const. with.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > out of harmony [phrase]

out of tune1535

at variance1709

out of character1782

out of harmony1853

(a)

1709 A. Pope Spring in Poet. Misc.: 6th Pt. 727 She runs, but hopes she does not run unseen; While a kind glance at her Pursuer flies, How much at variance are her Feet and Eyes!

1797 H. Lee Canterbury Tales I. 72 His tongue and his countenance were a little at variance.

1826 D. Booth Art of Brewing (ed. 2) 9 The opinions and practices of most brewers are completely at variance upon the subject of mashing.

1868 E. Edwards Life Sir W. Ralegh I. 505 Men's opinions of the worth of what Ralegh actually did as an historian are much at variance.

1910 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 39 The brow and the mouth are at variance.

(b)1780 Mirror No. 84 Nature and Fashion are two opposite powers, that have long been at variance with one another.1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 621 Arms,..in whatever cause, Seem most at variance with all moral good.1816 S. W. Singer Researches Hist. Playing Cards i. 58 An exquisite Chinese painting is at variance with this assertion.1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. i. 246 His conduct was not a little at variance with his professions.a1881 A. Barratt Physical Metempiric (1883) 240 With a doctrine, like Kant's, that [etc]..., my philosophy is wholly at variance.

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单词	variance
释义	variancen. Brit. /ˈvɛːrɪəns/, U.S. /ˈvɛriəns/ Forms: Middle English– variance (1500s Scottish varians, 1500s vareance), Middle English–1500s variaunce (Middle English -auns); Middle English–1600s varyaunce (Middle English variawnce, varianse, 1500s variance); Middle English wari-, warya(u)nce; Middle English veryaunce ( fery-), weryauns, weryouns; 1500s vari-, Scottish warience. Etymology: < Old French variance, -aunce, -ence (= Italian varianza ), < Latin variantia , < variāre to vary v. I. Senses relating to change or variation. 1. a. The fact or state of undergoing change or alteration; tendency to vary or become different; variation. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > [noun] wendingeOE changing?c1225 stirringa1240 wrixlinga1240 changec1325 variancec1340 transmutationc1380 varyingc1380 whileness1382 translationc1384 alterationa1398 mutationa1398 removinga1425 revolutiona1425 shiftingc1440 changementc1450 muance1480 commutation1509 altry1527 transition1545 turning1548 novation1549 immutation?c1550 alterance1559 alienation1562 turn?1567 vicissitude1603 refraction1614 fermentationa1661 diabasis1672 parallax1677 motion1678 aliation1775 transience1946 c1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 1423 God ordayns here..Sere variaunce..Of þe tyms and wedirs and sesons, In taken of þe worldes condicions, Þat swa unstable er and variande. c1400 Brut xxxiv [It] was callede þe citee of Ludstan; but now þat name is chaungede þrouȝ variance of lettres, and now is callede London. ?c1425 (c1390) G. Chaucer Fortune 45 Thou born art in my regne of varyaunce. Abowte the wheel with oother most thow dryue. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) vi. l. 100 Bot this fals warld with mony doubill cast, In it is nocht bot werray wariance. a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Fiiii She [sc. Fortune] dawnsyth varyaunce with mutabylyte Nowe all in welth forthwith in pouerte. 1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Gloucester v Any man to assure, In state uncarefull of Fortunes varyaunce. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 305 It being reasonable for every man to vary his opinion according to the variance of his reason. View more context for this quotation 1762 W. Falconer Shipwreck i. 11 By this, magnetic variance is explor'd. 1840 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 1 iii. 282 The variance in the produce of the wheats I attribute to the nature of the soil. 1859 J. E. Tennent Ceylon II. vii. vii. 260 The temperature..ranges from 36° to 81° (with a mean daily variance of 11°). 1888 Harper's Mag. Apr. 752 Even as the blood loses and replaces its corpuscles, without a variance in the volume and vigor of its current. †b. Inconstancy in persons; variableness, changeableness. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] unsteadfastnessa1300 falsenessc1330 unstablenessc1380 varyingc1380 inconstancec1386 variance1390 geriness1412 instabilityc1422 changeability?a1425 mutabilitya1425 changec1425 changeableness1447 unconstancec1449 unstabilitya1470 mutableness1481 unsureness1481 instableness1483 variation1509 inconstancy1526 shittleness1530 fickleness1548 unconstancy1548 unconstantness1551 inconstantness?a1562 pliableness1562 fast and loose1575 volubility1603 levity1604 unconstability1611 flexibleness1623 vagrancy1642 self-inconsistency1655 inconsistency1665 flittingnessa1680 easiness1705 inconsistence1713 versatility1755 contrariety1762 vibration1785 changefulness1791 girouettism1825 pirouettism1839 weathercockism1843 pirouettiveness1844 volatileness1849 unfixity1856 ficklety1888 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 22 Ther is deceipte in his balance, And al is that the variance Of ous, that scholde ous betre avise. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 176 He spekith of a variaunce and of a chaunging..in mannis wil. c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn l. 1135 The most parte of Room held it for dotage, And had muche mervell of his variaunce. a1505 R. Henryson Test. Cresseid 223 in Poems (1981) 118 In hir face semit greit variance, Quhyles perfyte treuth and quhyles inconstance. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 161 Luve..Quhilk is begun with inconstance And endis nocht but variance. †c. In the phrase without variance (Scottish. but variance). Obsolete.The phrase occurs also in sense 3b. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > constancy or steadfastness > [adverb] anredlyOE fastlyOE steadfastly?c1225 stifflyc1290 stably1297 steadfasta1300 stoutly1303 steevely1340 sadlya1375 sturdilyc1374 firm1377 surelyc1380 like a flint1382 tough1398 firmlyc1425 unmovablyc1425 but variancec1430 sad?c1430 immovably1435 toughlyc1450 affirmlya1513 wishly1530 constantly1534 steadily1540 fall back (also flat), fall edge?1553 staidly1571 fixedly1605 indeclinably1624 undeclinably1662 unfalteringly1665 unswervingly1805 unwaveringly1830 indomitably1837 rockily1846 unbendingly1847 indivertibly1853 unshakeablya1864 undyingly1881 unshakenly1882 adamantly1897 c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 10 We say offte hert, withowte variaunce, Sovereigne lord, welcome, welcome ye be! 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iv. l. 42 Wallace..spak to thaim with manly contenance; In fayr afforme he said but wariance [etc.]. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 86 He that with gud lyfe and trewth, But varians or vder slewth, Dois evir mair with ane maister dwell. 2. a. The fact or quality of varying or differing; difference, divergence, discrepancy. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [noun] diversitya1340 difference1340 variancec1374 distancea1382 unlikenessa1387 variationc1405 discrepation?a1425 distinction1435 severaltyc1449 unlikelinessc1450 dissemblance1463 unlikelihood1483 alteritya1500 indifferencec1503 discrepancea1522 dissimilitude1532 differency1542 variety1552 discernment1570 disparitya1575 discrepancy1579 otherness1587 discernance1592 imparity1608 disanalogy1610 disresemblance1622 dislikeness1623 diff1624 inconformity1625 irresemblance1628 variousness1628 odds1642 disparation1654 aliety1656 disparility1656 disparateness1659 severality1664 nonconformity1672 unconformableness1712 dissimilarity1715 differentness1727 differ1787 allogeneitya1834 otherwiseness1890 otherliness1937 diversion- the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > [noun] discordance1340 variancec1374 discorda1387 disconvenience?a1425 unsuingc1425 disaccordancec1436 unaccordancec1449 inconveniencec1460 discrepancea1464 difformness1547 disagreeance1548 disagreeing1548 jar1548 disagreement1551 disagreeableness1570 dissonancy1584 discordancy1587 discoherencea1600 disconveniency1601 disharmonya1602 dissent1603 dissonancea1604 incongruency1604 incongruence1610 incongruity1612 discongruity1624 inconformity1625 discorrespondencya1641 inconsonancy1650 inconsistence1651 dissidy1657 unagreeableness1658 discomposure1659 disconsonancy1659 uncorrespondency1659 inconveniency1662 unconsonancy1665 incorrespondence1667 oddness1680 inconsistency1699 incongruousness1727 irreconcilementa1737 discrepancy1748 incoincidence?1798 inaccordance1808 inconsonance1811 inaccordancy1817 incorrespondency1817 cacophony1831 divergence1837 disaccord1871 c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde v. 762 For that that som men blamen ever yit, Lo, other maner folk commenden it. And as for me, for alle swich variaunce, Felicitie clepe I my suffisaunce. c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. I. 28 For alle Cristene men shulden be of oo wille, and variaunce in siche sectis makiþ variaunce in wille. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xiii. 60 In many poyntes þai vary fra vs and fra oure faith. All þaire variaunce ware to mykil to tell. 1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) ii. 277 Ye haue not many chaunges [of service] after the varyaunce of feastes,..as the comon seruyce of the churche vseth. 1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 195 So is there variance between written storie, & common speeche, touching y^e true place of y^e building. 1614 R. Carew Excellencie Eng. Tongue in W. Camden Remaines (rev. ed.) 41 Words, that in their originall are Latine, and yet (saue some small variance in their terminations) fall out al one with the French, Dutch, and English. 1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe IV. ii. 136 It is evident that variance of opinion proves error somewhere. 1846 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Wks. I. 243/2 The variance of knowledge and will, where no passion is the stimulant. 1892 Law Times 92 156/1 Whether variance between the provisional and complete specification of a patent..is still a ground of invalidity. †b. Variety. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [noun] manifoldnesseOE serenessa1300 diversityc1340 sundernessc1390 diversenessa1400 seretya1400 variancea1400 sundryhead?a1425 sundrinessa1450 variety1548 multivariety1601 diversifying1611 inconstancy1646 heterogeneity1651 variousness1651 heterogeneousness1662 variegation1668 multifariousness1684 miscellaneousness1727 miscellaneity1778 versatility1802 omnifariousness1806 motleyness1819 many-headedness1847 heterology1854 unhomogeneity1862 diversitude1870 variedness1897 polycentricity1915 inhomogeneity1916 a1400–50 Alexander 4632 Mekill variaunce of vertus enveronis oure saules. 3. a. Law. A difference or discrepancy between two statements or documents. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > [noun] > inconsistency or contradiction > an instance of being inconsistent > specific between statements, documents, etc. variance1429 jar1548 1429 Rolls of Parl. IV. 346 For whiche diversite and variaunce of the seide name. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) ix. l. 118 Thar may na band be maid so sufficians Bot ay in it thai fynd a warians. a1592 R. Greene Sc. Hist. Iames IV (1598) v. sig. I3 Law. This matter craues a variance not a speech. a1626 F. Bacon Elements Common Lawes (1630) 98 So if I graunt you..a way according to the first plot intended, whereof a table is annexed to these presents, and there be some speciall variance betweene the table and the originall plot [etc.]. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Variance, an alteration of something formerly laid in a Plea. 1817 W. Selwyn Abridgem. Law Nisi Prius (ed. 4) II. 1107 Advantage cannot be taken of a variance between the plaint and the declaration in the superior court. 1827 J. S. Mill in J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. V. ix. vi. v. 598 The designation..by the name of St. Ethelburgh, instead of Saint Ethelburgha, was held to be (as lawyers term it) a fatal variance. 1835 Tomlins Law Dict. (ed. 4) (at cited word) If there is a variance between the declaration and the writ, it is error; and the writ should formerly abate. b. In general use: a difference or discrepancy; a discriminating or divergent feature. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [noun] > a variant or variation variance1497 vary1600 variousness1628 varying1628 variegation1668 modification1669 diversificationa1676 variation1699 variant1849 1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 83 The particuler variances betwene the Indentures and book of shipping. 1511 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 325 There have bene greate variaunce now of late in taking of principales. a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) i. xii. sig. C.iii That it is a righte heauye thyng to see suche varyaunces in oure beliefe rise and growe among oure selfe. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 656 Though in the preceding statements there is an apparent variance,..the variations may have arisen [etc.]. 1859 J. E. Tennent Ceylon I. Introd. xxxv I have also to apologise for variances in the spelling of proper names. 1884 Law Times 77 27/1 The variances..which have arisen between the real property law of the United States and England. †c. Divergence from the truth. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > [noun] leasec888 falsec1000 falsedom1297 falsehood1297 bula1300 gabbinga1300 variancea1450 falset1482 mendacity?1540 unverityc1572 truthlessness1662 mendaciousness1829 untruthfulness1830 unveracity1839 inveracity1864 untruism1868 falseship- a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Merlin (1904) I. l. 706 How scholde j ȝeven the ony penaunce, Whanne j knowe wel thou makest variawnce? a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Merlin (1904) I. l. 748 Thou..forsakest alle Lecherie, with-owten variaunce. d. U.S. Law. An official dispensation from a building regulation. ΘΚΠ society > law > legislation > [noun] > cessation or suspension > in a particular case > dispensation from building regulation variance1925 1925 New Hampsh. Public Laws xlii. 191 To authorize upon appeal in specific cases such variance from the terms of the ordinance as will not be contrary to the public interest. 1938 Atlantic Reporter CC. 521 A literal enforcement of the ordinance may be disregarded to permit a variance, while conditions for an exception must be found in the ordinance and may not be varied. 1973 N.Y. Law Jrnl. 19 July 13/7 Judgment is granted in favor of the petitioner..directing the issuance of a variance for the installation of a second kitchen in the premises. 1977 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 3 Sept. 47/3 The only hotel on the island [sc. Bermuda] ever given a variance to be built on a hilltop. The permission took 12 years to get. e. Economics. The difference between actual and expected costs, profits, output, etc., in a statistical analysis. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > forecast > actual or variant result out-turn1801 variance1964 1964 Times Rev. Industry Apr. 8/2 An expression of the variation between standard cost and actual achieved cost is called ‘variance’. In 1951 under manual control the variance was 31.6 per cent. 1967 D. Goch in G. Wills & Yearsley Handbk. Managem. Technol. 145 The following example will illustrate the application of this method of variance analysis to an imaginary product. 1974 Terminol. Managem. & Financial Accountancy (Inst. Cost & Managem. Accountants) 13 Variance analysis, that part of variance accounting..which relates to the analysis into constituent parts of variances between planned and actual performance. 1978 Accountants' Rec. Dec. 15/1 Causal factors of the sales variance have been established by analysis... Sales variance analysis..provides data enabling management to reconsider its marketing philosophies. 4. The fact of changing, altering, or varying from a state, opinion, etc.; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > [noun] > from a state, opinion, etc. variance1415 evolution1771 1415 T. Hoccleve To Sir J. Oldcastle 253 Holsum to thee now were a variaunce Fro the feend to our lord god. c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 45 After variaunce Fro lif to dethe. 1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes iv, in Wks. 271/1 In this point I assure you faythfully, there is no maner change or varyaunce from his oppinion. 1792 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) III. 460 The first and only instance of variance from the former port of my resolution, I was duped into. 5. Statistics. The mean of the squares of the deviations of a set of quantities; the square of the standard deviation. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [noun] > distribution > variability or spread > measures of quartile deviation1894 standard deviation1895 s.d.1902 subrange1903 range1911 variance1918 span1962 sigma1978 1918 R. A. Fisher in Trans. Royal Soc. Edinb. 52 399 It is..desirable in analysing the causes of variability to deal with the square of the standard deviation as the measure of variability. We shall term this quantity the Variance. 1948 New Biol. 4 34 Measurements of the resting blood pressure of a group of fifty young men... We compute the mean blood pressure and the variance of the observed values, the variance being a measure of scatter of values around the mean. 1970 Nature 25 July 376/2 Analysis of variance gave highly significant population and fertilizer effects. 1977 R. E. Megill Introd. Risk Anal. iii. 23 Because all values are squared in the variance the standard deviation is larger than the mean deviation. II. Senses relating to disagreement or discord. 6. a. The state or fact of disagreeing or falling out; discord, dissension, contention, debate. (Cf. senses Phrases 1, Phrases 2.) ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > [noun] unsibeOE unsaughta1122 un-i-sibc1275 conteckc1290 discordingc1325 distancec1325 discordance1340 dissensionc1384 batea1400 discordc1425 variancec1425 variationc1485 disgreement?1504 distinction1520 factiona1538 jar1546 variety1546 disagreeance1548 disagreeing1548 disagreement1548 misliking1564 odds1567 mislikea1586 discordancy1587 disagree1589 distancy1595 dissent1596 dislike1598 secting1598 dichostasy1606 fraction1609 dissentation1623 ill blood1624 misintelligence1632 clashing1642 misunderstanding1642 discomposure1659 disjointinga1715 uneasiness1744 friction1760 misunderstand1819 unharmony1866 inharmony1867 trouble at (the or t') mill1967 the mind > emotion > hatred > state of variance or disunion > [noun] unsaughtnessa1000 unsaughta1122 schismc1425 variancec1425 variationc1485 variety1546 breach1745 strain1884 society > society and the community > dissent > [noun] > state or instance of distancec1300 differencea1387 variancec1425 different?1483 differinga1525 displeasure1550 differ1566 distaste1621 disgusta1665 disaccommodationa1676 differency1707 fallout1725 collision1839 upset1887 contretemps1961 c1425 J. Lydgate Assembly of Gods 409 In came Dyscord to haue made varyaunce. 1477 Rolls of Parl. VI. 184/1 If variance falle betwixt any fynder, affermyng ayenst any other persone. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xxiv. 89 [It] maketh theim to enterteyne well togider wythoute varyaunce. 1535 Act 27 Hen. VIII c. 26 §1 Great discorde, variance, debate,..& sedicion hath growen betwene his said subiectes. 1598 R. Bernard tr. Terence Hecyra iv. iv, in Terence in Eng. 374 When you seeke forged matter to cause strife and varience. 1639 G. Daniel Ecclus. xxvii. 43 Murder attends the variance of the Proud. 1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. ii. 192 She makes Variance betwixt Rulers and Subjects, betwixt Parents and Children. View more context for this quotation a1708 W. Beveridge Thes. Theologicus (1711) III. 193 What is variance? A sin opposed to amity. 1770 H. Brooke Fool of Quality V. xvii. 53 If any attempted to..defraud me of my property, I yielded it without variance. 1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) IV. 293 It would be necessary for a time to keep up a show of variance between them. a1854 H. Reed Lect. Eng. Lit. (1878) v. 159 The bloody variance of a feudal nobility. 1864 C. M. Yonge Trial II. 152 I never saw a child with such an instinct for preventing variance, or so full of tact and pretty ways. in combination.1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Variaunce makers, litistonsores. b. Opposition or antagonism to something. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > [noun] contrariositya1340 adversitya1382 champertyc1386 contrariousness1398 thwartingc1430 contrariancec1450 contrariness?1530 withsitting1532 oppugning1535 opposition1548 oppugnation1563 thwartness1577 adverseness1580 crossing1580 breasting1594 antipathy1601 oppugnancy1609 affrontment1611 opposure1611 thortera1614 contrariancya1617 obstancy1616 oppositeness1619 contropposition1621 obstrigillation1623 opposing1624 hostility1632 opposal1638 crossness1641 affront1642 aversion1651 oppugnance1657 shock1664 opponency1727 counteraction1750 antagonism1797 throwing1816 oppositiveness1824 kick1839 variance1842 opposedness1853 againstness1909 hornet1921 adversariness1970 oppositionality1989 1842 H. E. Manning Serm. i. 16 An energetic variance of will to the mind of God. 1875 H. E. Manning Internal Mission of Holy Ghost viii. 210 We have used our wills for all manner of conscious variance to His holy will. 7. a. A disagreement, quarrel, or falling out; a dispute. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > hatred > quarrel or falling out > [noun] slit1390 variancec1425 quarrellingc1460 falling out1539 quarrel1566 feud1568 breach1573 rupture1583 outcast1620 outfall1647 outfallingc1650 fallout1725 split1729 break-off1860 c1425 J. Lydgate Assembly of Gods 244 Wyll ye agre that Phebe your mastresse May haue the guydyng of your varyaunce? 1453 Rolls of Parl. V. 265/1 To make variaunces and commotion betwene you..and youre true people. 1473 J. Warkworth Chron. (Camden) 6 As thei went togedere..there felle in a varyaunce for ther logynge. 1541 R. Barnes Wks. (1573) 339/2 Certaine articles, for y^e which there is a varience in the world at this day. 1560 in W. Cotton Elizabethan Guild (1873) 21 Yf any variance or controversie shall at any tyme happen to ryse betwene any youre brethren. 1607 Merry Devil Edmonton Induct. 84 Then thus betwixt vs two this variance ends. 1673 in O. Airy Essex Papers (1890) I. 92 It were too long a Story to tell..y^e originalls and beginnings of their variances. 1782 J. Brown Compend. View Nat. & Revealed Relig. iv. ii. 318 No variance hath ever taken place between God and holy angels. †b. spec. A difference or dispute leading to legal action between parties. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > quarrel leading to legal action variance1476 society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > [noun] > dispute leading to litigation variance1476 1476 Searchers Verdicts in Surtees Misc. (1890) 21 Award & jugement..of a variaunce of a ground be twix John Gilyot Alderman..and Ambrose Preston of London. 1498 Cov. Leet Bk. iii. 595 Where-as diuerse discordes and wariaunces were late moved & had bitwen the seid parties. 1544 R. Tracy Supplycacion to Kynge Henry VIII sig. D To here and iudge suche causes and varyaunces. 1562 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. I. 203 In respect of the variance and debait standand betuix thame. 1733 A. Pope Of Use of Riches 14 Is there a variance? enter but his door, Balk'd are the Courts, and contest is no more. Phrases P1. in variance. †a. Forming a subject of debate, contention, or legal action. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > at variance [phrase] > forming subject of dissension in variance1461 at travers1524 society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > [phrase] > that is subject of legal action in variance1461 in suita1538 in litigation1856 1461–2 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 4 He is agred..to put all thing that is in variance betwixt you & him in the said Sir John & me. 1468 Searchers Verdicts in Surtees Misc. (1890) 18 A grounde þat stode in variaunce betwix thabbot & Convent. 1534 in I. S. Leadam Select Cases Star Chamber (1911) II. 317 Suche matteres as then were in varyaunce bytwene the seid Mulsho and the seid Selby. 1559 Bp. Scot in J. Strype Ann. Reformation (1824) I. ii. App. x. 32 Consider, I beseche you, the matters here in Varyaunce. 1588 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha (new ed.) iv. iv. 438 One that mooueth pleas or sutes..to the end to have part of the land, or other thing in variance. 1713 M. Henry Disc. Meekness (1822) 118 If meekness rule, matters in variance may be fairly reasoned and adjusted. †b. At variance; = Phrases 2b. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > hatred > state of variance or disunion > [adjective] unsaughtc1100 unsomec1275 in variancec1465 at variance1528 at variancea1535 opposed1584 at (or at the, on the) outs1824 c1465 Engl. Chron. (Camden) 64 It happid that with boistez langage.. he fil in variaunce with thaym, and thay fil on him. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cccxix. 493 The realme of Englande was as then in great variaunce among themselfe. P2. at variance. a. Of persons: In a state of discord, dissension, or enmity. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > at variance [phrase] in (also into, on, a) piecesa1275 in strife1398 at traversc1448 at issue1474 at a strife1488 at variancea1535 at square1545 at (a) jar1552 at (or to) daggers' drawing1556 at (a) mutiny1567 in (a) mutiny1567 at wrig-wrag1599 at daggers drawn1668 at (or at the, on the) outs1824 loggerhead1831 at daggers' points1857 at swords' points1890 the mind > emotion > hatred > state of variance or disunion > [adjective] unsaughtc1100 unsomec1275 in variancec1465 at variance1528 at variancea1535 opposed1584 at (or at the, on the) outs1824 a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 36/1 The Lordes whome he knewe at Varyaunce, hymselfe in hys deathe bedde appeased. 1598 R. Bernard tr. Terence Andria iii. ii, in Terence in Eng. 91 Simo and Davus are at variance about the birth of the child. 1650 T. Bayly Worcesters Apophthegmes 4 The Servants of his house..were never at variance, in point of Religion. 1683 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) II. 363 Whielst the Emperor and Turke are at variance. a1708 W. Beveridge Thes. Theologicus (1710) II. 337 God and man naturally are at variance. a1781 R. Watson Hist. Reign Philip III (1783) i. 40 Neither of the courts at variance seemed..inclined to prolong the war. 1836 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece II. 77 The rest of the Peloponnesian allies, seeing the two kings at variance, followed the example of the Corinthians. 1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. ii. 34 The powers who dwell In the celestial mansions are no more At variance. in extended use.1718 Free-thinker No. 73. 2 I heard a violent Noise, as if the Elements were all at Variance. b. Const. with, among(st or between, from. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > hatred > state of variance or disunion > [adjective] unsaughtc1100 unsomec1275 in variancec1465 at variance1528 at variancea1535 opposed1584 at (or at the, on the) outs1824 (a) 1528 in I. S. Leadam Select Cases Star Chamber (1911) II. 177 James hath brokyn with..his Neyburus..and is at gret waryance with them. 1593 Bacchus Bountie C 4 Hee falls at variance with mistris Merigodowne. 1650 Nicholas P. (Camden) 204 And they do their best to set this good Princess at variance with her Mother in Law. 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 1585 What cause Brought him so soon at variance with himself Among his foes? View more context for this quotation 1736 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. i. 454 One..with whom you were at Variance. 1782 F. Burney Cecilia IV. viii. ii. 170 It is with myself only I am at variance. 1839 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VI. 39 On all matters as to which he was at variance with the Athenians. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People iii. §5. 138 Every year found the Justiciary at greater variance with Rome. (b)1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Eng. 78/1 in Chron. I The Britaynes..were at variance amongst themselues.1694 E. Phillips tr. J. Milton Lett. of State 240 We have beheld the Protestant Princes..more and more at weakning variance among themselves.1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. iv. 240 The Breton princes..were at variance between themselves.(c)1885 Times (Weekly ed.) 6 Mar. 11/4 A Government from which..he is totally at variance on points even more important. c. In the phrases to set (or †fall) at variance. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > hatred > quarrel or falling out > fall out or quarrel [verb] to fall out?1499 to set (or fall) at variancec1522 society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > quarrel [verb (intransitive)] threapc1175 disputea1225 thretec1400 varyc1450 fray1465 to fall out1470 to set (or fall) at variancec1522 quarrel1530 square1530 to break a straw1542 to be or to fall at (a) square1545 to fall at jar1552 cowl1556 tuilyie1565 jarl1580 snarl1597 to fall foul1600 to cast out1730 fisticuff1833 spat1848 cagmag1882 rag1889 to part brass-rags1898 hassle1949 blue1955 society > society and the community > dissent > become at variance with [verb (transitive)] > cause (dissension) > set (people) at variance to-bear971 to cast (in) a bone1498 to set (or fall) at variancec1522 to set by the ears?1566 distract1597 to set outa1610 jarc1615 dissentiate1628 vary1795 (a) 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. x. f. xiij^v For y am come to sett a man att varyaunce ageynst hys father. [So in later versions.] 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Prov. xvii. B He y^t discloseth the faute, setteth frendes at variaunce. 1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. iv. 77 The Spaniards set Yorke and Stanley at variance. 1655 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Ferney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) I. 557 Pale-faced envye, mixt with hatred and mallice, hath done there best indeavour to sett us att variance. 1713 J. Addison Cato i. iv To disguise our passions, To set our looks at variance with our thoughts. 1755 E. Young Centaur i. 5 Prone to..set things at variance, which, by nature, are allies. (b)c1522 T. More Treat. Memorare Nouissima in Wks. (1557) I. 89 Now shal ye se men fall at varyance for kissyng of the pax.a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) II. 45 The earle of Lennox and the cardinall was fallin at warience.1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia sig. C4 Mars, and Mercury, fell at variance, whose servant he should be. d. Of things: In a state of disagreement or difference; conflicting, differing. Usually const. with. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > out of harmony [phrase] out of tune1535 at variance1709 out of character1782 out of harmony1853 (a) 1709 A. Pope Spring in Poet. Misc.: 6th Pt. 727 She runs, but hopes she does not run unseen; While a kind glance at her Pursuer flies, How much at variance are her Feet and Eyes! 1797 H. Lee Canterbury Tales I. 72 His tongue and his countenance were a little at variance. 1826 D. Booth Art of Brewing (ed. 2) 9 The opinions and practices of most brewers are completely at variance upon the subject of mashing. 1868 E. Edwards Life Sir W. Ralegh I. 505 Men's opinions of the worth of what Ralegh actually did as an historian are much at variance. 1910 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 39 The brow and the mouth are at variance. (b)1780 Mirror No. 84 Nature and Fashion are two opposite powers, that have long been at variance with one another.1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 621 Arms,..in whatever cause, Seem most at variance with all moral good.1816 S. W. Singer Researches Hist. Playing Cards i. 58 An exquisite Chinese painting is at variance with this assertion.1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. i. 246 His conduct was not a little at variance with his professions.a1881 A. Barratt Physical Metempiric (1883) 240 With a doctrine, like Kant's, that [etc]..., my philosophy is wholly at variance. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1340
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