Variance \Va"ri*ance\, n. [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) 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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)