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discordance|dɪˈskɔːdəns|
[a. OF. des-, discordance = It. scordanza for discordanza (Florio), L. type *discordāntia, f. discordāre: see discord v. and -ance.]
1. The fact of being discordant; disagreement, want of concord.
1340Ayenb. 259 Vor of þe discordance of þe herte comþ þe discordance of þe bodie. c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋201 After the diverse discordances of oure wikkednesses. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 427 b/2 Thys holy saynt Yues laboured euer to pease alle dyscordaunce and stryf. 1494Fabyan Chron. I. vi. ccxiii. (R.), In this sayinge appereth some discordaunce with other writers. a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. ii. xii. §1 (1622) 329 The whole concordance of the world consists in discordances. 1656Hobbes Liberty, etc. (R.), The discordance between the action and the law. 1819Mackintosh Sp. in Ho. Com. 2 Mar. Wks. 1846 III. 374 This rapidly increasing discordance between the letter and the practice of the Criminal Law, arose in the best times of our history. 1864J. H. Newman Apol. 106 They were in discordance with each other, from the first, in their estimate of the means, [etc.].
2. Discord of sounds; harsh or dissonant noise.
c1400Rom. Rose 4251 In floites made he discordaunce. 1483Cath. Angl. 101/1 A Discordance..desonancia. 1801Southey Thalaba xii. viii, Cries, Which rung in wild discordance round the rock. 1878Besant & Rice Celia's Arb. xviii. (1887) 132 The curious mixture of discordances which rose to the organ-loft. |