Category:Variance

Va"ri*ance, n. Etym: [l. variantia.]

1. The quality or state of being variant; change of condition; Variation.

2. Difference that produce dispute or controversy; disagreement; Dissension; discord; dispute; quarrel. That which is the strength of their amity shall prove the immediate Author of their variance. Shak.

3. (law)

Defn: a disagreement or difference between two parts of the same Legal proceeding, which, to be effectual, ought to agree, -- as Between the writ and the declaration, or between the allegation and The proof. Bouvier. A variance, in disagreement; in a state of Dissension or controversy; at enmity. "what cause brought him so soon At variance with himself" milton.