different between tourney vs rivalry

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman turnei, from Old French tornei (“tournament”), from tornoier (“to joust, tilt”)

Noun

tourney (plural tourneys or tournies)

1. Tournament.
   • c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665):

     By a knight of ghostes & shadowes,
     I sumon’d am to Tourney.
     ten leagues beyond the wide worlds end
     mee thinke it is noe iourney.

   • 1793, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel

     And let the recreant traitors seek

     My tourney court.

   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Marriage of Geraint

     We hold a tourney here tomorrow morn, / And there is scantly time for half the work.

Verb

tourney (third-person singular simple present tourneys, present participle tourneying, simple past and past participle tourneyed)

1. (archaic) To take part in a tournament.
   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. XV, Practical — Devotional

     Here indeed, perhaps, by rule of antagonisms, may be the place to mention that, after King Richard’s return, there was a liberty of tourneying given to the fighting men of England […]

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English

Etymology

rival +? -ry?

Pronunciation

• (US, UK) IPA^(key): /??a?.v?l.?i/

Noun

rivalry (countable and uncountable, plural rivalries)

1. An ongoing relationship between (usually two) rivals who compete for superiority.

   The Boston Bruins have a longstanding rivalry with the Montreal Canadiens.

   James and Polly have a bitter rivalry due to the latter's inclusion in the Tea Time Teaser.

2. (economics) The characteristic of being a rivalrous good, such that it can be consumed or used by only one person at a time.

3. Any competition between two or more things or factors.

   Binocular rivalry is a visual phenomenon in which perception alternates between different images presented to each eye.

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