Obs. Also 5 stawnce, 6–7 staunce. [Aphetic form of DISTANCE sb.] Dissension, dispute: = DISTANCE sb. 1. Withouten stance: without dispute, undoubtedly.
14[?]. Merita Missæ, 151, in Lay Folks Mass Bk., 152. Charlys wane All frawnce, And cristende spayne with-owtyn stawnce.
1566. Gascoigne, Supposes, II. iv. I will set such a staunce [It. tanta discordia] betweene him and Pasiphilo that all this towne shall not make them friendes.
1566. J. Heywood, Spider & F., xxxix. 11. Beginning of their comnicashin arose, Wherin they argde and fell at arging stance.
