·noun A controversy; a falling out; a disagreement; an objection; a cavil.
II. Difficulty ·noun Embarrassment of affairs, especially financial affairs;
— usually in the plural; as, to be in difficulties.
III. Difficulty ·noun The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness;
— opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work of difficulty.
IV. Difficulty ·noun Something difficult; a thing hard to do or to understand; that which occasions labor or perplexity, and requires skill and perseverance to overcome, solve, or achieve; a hard enterprise; an obstacle; an impediment; as, the difficulties of a science; difficulties in theology.