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discordant, a. (n.)|dɪˈskɔːdənt|
[ME. des-, dis-, dyscordant, a. OF. des-, discordant, pr. pple. of descorder: see discord v. and -ant.]
1. Not in accord, not harmoniously connected or related; at variance; disagreeing, differing; incongruous. Const. to, from, with.
[1292Britton i. Prol. (1865) 2 En taunt qe lour usages ne soynt mie descordauntz a dreiture.] c1374Chaucer Troylus ii. 988 (1037) No discordaunt þing y-fere, As þus, to vsen termes of Physik. a1420Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 96 As discordant as day is to the nyght. 1550Bale Apology 75 (R.) So long as he is so dyscordaunte to hymself. 1651Hobbes Leviath. ii. xxvi. 140 The reasons and resolutions are, and must remain discordant. 1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. i. ii. 57 If discordant from it, the sentence of Condemnation [follows]. 1781Cowper Retirement 173 Discordant motives in one centre meet. 1868E. Edwards Raleigh I. iv. 52 The current accounts are in some points curiously discordant; yet far less discordant than are the portraits. 1868Gladstone Juv. Mundi i. (1870) 16 Testimony..in no case discordant with that of the Iliad.
b. Living in discord, disagreeing, quarrelsome.
1547J. Harrison Exhort. Scottes H iij, I..accuse..myne awne rebellious, discordant and graceles children. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, Induct. 19 The blunt monster with vncounted heads, The still discordant, wauering multitude. 1776Johnson Let. to Boswell 21 Dec., When once a discordant family has felt the pleasure of peace, they will not willingly lose it. 1803Wellesley in Owen Desp. 328 He united that discordant and turbulent race in the common cause.
2. Of sound: Inharmonious, dissonant, jarring.
c1400Rom. Rose 4247 Discordaunt ever fro armonye, And distoned from melodie. 1701Congreve Hymn to Harmony vi, War, with discordant notes and jarring noise The harmony of peace destroys. 1762Kames Elem. Crit. ii. §6 (1833) 68 Two sounds that refuse incorporation or mixture, are said to be discordant. 1784Cowper Task vi. 787 No passion touches a discordant string, But all is harmony and love. 1871L. Stephen Playgr. Eur. (1894) vii. 156 Some discordant shrieks from our guides made the summer night hideous.
†B. n. in pl. Discordant things, attributes, or propositions. Obs.
c1400Test. Love ii. (1542) 319 a/2 By these accordaunces, discordantes ben ioyned. 1551T. Wilson Logike (1580) 52 Contraries, are suche discordauntes, as can not be, at one and the same tyme, in one substaunce. Ibid. 52 b, Note further, that all discordauntes are not contrary, accordyng to their..common accidentes, but accordyng to their proper difference.
Hence diˈscordantness, discordant quality.
1727Bailey vol. II, Discordantness, disagreeableness. |