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1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. f. cc.xxii/1 Thus the christen realmes were in variacyon, and the churches in great dysference [read dyfference], bycause of the popes.

1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. f. C.lxxxiiii^v/2 These assygnmentes were in debate and in dyfference between the erle and the barones.

1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. cxxiii. f. cxxxviii/1 The duke of Bretayne was in great difference [Fr. en trop grant difference] with the realme of Fraunce.

1571 G. Fenton tr. Actes of Conf. in Relig. f. 26 That which they haue in difference with the Ministers.

1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper i. 41 Who was the chiefe..remaines in some difference.

a1662 P. Heylyn Aerius Redivivus (1670) 403 There was scarce a point in difference between the Parties, wherein they had not very frequent and most fearful bickerings with one another.

1738 Preservative against Popery I. i. iv. 235 There is scarce any Doctrine or Practice in Difference between them and us.

1774 O. Goldsmith Grecian Hist. I. viii. 253 With full power to concert all matters in difference.

1806 Parl. Reg. I. 48 Gentlemen may live in difference on general and political subjects.

1867 Law Times 16 Nov. 148/1 All the matters in difference were referred to an arbitrator.

1902 W. Mack & H. P. Nash Cycl. Law & Procedure III. 681 The arbitrator has power to pass upon and determine everything..connected with the particular matters in difference or dispute.

1937 J. E. Davies Let. 26 Feb. in Mission to Moscow (1945) 66 He stated that it was unfortunate that the matters in difference had not progressed.

2013 S. C. Tucker Encycl. Mexican-Amer. War I. 792/2 A prompt settlement..of every matter in difference between the two countries.