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disagreement|dɪsəˈgriːmənt|
[f. disagree v. + -ment, after agreement. Cf. F. désagrément (desagreement, Oudinot, 1642) anything disagreeable, or not to one's liking.]
1. Want of agreement or harmony; difference; discordancy, diversity, discrepancy.
1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 284 As well their words as their deedes bee at disagreement. 1699Bentley Phal 154 There's a seeming disagreement between Diodorus and Herodotus. 1737Whiston Josephus, Antiq. Diss. ii, The apparent disagreement of any command to the moral attributes of God. a1847Mrs. Sherwood Lady of Manor I. vii. 267 Sin is a disagreement or nonconformity of the will of any creature with the will of God. 1864Bowen Logic v. 105 The Judgement, quadrupeds are not rational, determines the relation of disagreement between the two Terms.
2. Refusal to agree or assent.
1495Act 11 Hen. VII, c. 36 §1 Any disagreement or disassent by the seid Duches..notwithstandyng. 1642Perkins Prof. Bk. i. §43. 19 The disagreement of the husband ought to be shewed.
3. Difference of opinion; dissent.
1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 83, I againe with you was not at disagreement. 1613Jackson Creed i. 445 note, His disagreement from some of his owne profession. 1658T. Wall Charac. Enemies Ch. 7 Disagreement in matters of faith causeth enmity. 1868F. Edwards Raleigh I. xvii. 348 Men of very different natures, apart from their utter disagreement in religion.
4. Quarrel, dissension, variance, strife.
1589Fleming Virg. Georg. ii. 34 Disagreement vexing brethren faithles and vntrustie. 1626Meade in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. i. III. 223 There hath been some Disagreement at Court between their Majesties, by reason of the French Ambassador. 1770Junius Lett. xxxviii. 190 Is it..for your interest..to live in a perpetual disagreement with your people? 1858Froude Hist. Eng. III. xii. 10 The occasion of their disagreement being removed, he desired to return to the old terms of amity.
5. Unsuitableness (of food, climate, etc.) to the constitution.
1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. i. ii. (1853) I. 48 The probable disagreement of so torrid a climate unto English bodies.
6. An unpleasantness, a disagreeable condition. [F. désagrément.] rare.
1778Gates in Sparks Corr. Amer. Rev. (1853) II. 532 You would have avoided many disagreements, had it pleased you to have accepted that offer. |