Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) Change of condition; variation. 2. (n.) Difference that produce dispute or controversy; disagreement; dissension; discord; dispute; quarrel. 3. (n.) 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.

Multi-Version Concordance Variance (1 Occurrence) Matthew 10:35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. (KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)