n. [ F. différence, L. differentia. ]
Differencies of administration, but the same Lord. 1 Cor. xii. 5. [ 1913 Webster ]
What was the difference? It was a contention in public. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Away therefore went I with the constable, leaving the old warden and the young constable to compose their difference as they could. T. Ellwood. [ 1913 Webster ]
The marks and differences of sovereignty. Davies. [ 1913 Webster ]
That now he chooseth with vile difference
To be a beast, and lack intelligence. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
Ascensional difference.
v. t.
Thou mayest difference gods from men. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]
Kings, in receiving justice and undergoing trial, are not differenced from the meanest subject. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
So completely differenced by their separate and individual characters that we at once acknowledge them as distinct persons. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. indifferentia similarity, lack of difference: cf. F. indifférence. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
He . . . is far from such indifference and equity as ought and must be in judges which he saith I assign. Sir T. More. [ 1913 Webster ]
Indifference can not but be criminal, when it is conversant about objects which are so far from being of an indifferent nature, that they are highest importance. Addison.