The Collaborative International Dictionary
Variance \Va"ri*ance\, n. [L. variantia.]
The quality or state of being variant; change of condition; variation.
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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.
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(Law) 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.
Usage examples of "a variance".
It seems our demon has acquired a variance from Ananke herself, giving him express permission to perform miracles in the furtherance of his plan.
And wouldn't it look great, you granting me a variance after denying her?
He watched it grow, cherishing imaginings both dread and hopeful, a mere child's game, for he did not really believe that it would be anything but a variance in regul schedules for regul reasons, as ordinary as anything could be in the organized routine of Kesrith's dying.