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disharmony|dɪsˈhɑːmənɪ|
[f. dis- 9 + harmony; prob. formed after discord. Cf. mod.F. désharmonie, neologism in Littré, 1874, also corresponding words in other mod. langs.]
1. Want of harmony or agreement, discordance.
a1602W. Perkins Cases Consc. (1619) 6 The want or absence of harmony, which we call disharmony. 1665Glanvill Scepsis Sci. xiii. 76 Reason and Faith are at perfect Unisons, the disharmony is in the Phancy. 1765Law Behmen's Myst. Magnum liii. (1772) 324 Of the Properties in their Disharmony, Inequality, and Discord. 1864Carlyle Fredk. Gt. (1865) IV. xi. ii. 33 Disharmony of mind and tongue. 1879Farrar St. Paul II. 226 That sense of guilt which is the feeling of disharmony with God.
b. with a and pl. Something discordant.
1833Lamb Elia (1860) 364 If it ever obtrudes itself as a disharmony, are we inclined to laugh? 1884Ch. Times 25 Apr. 331/4 The manifold disharmonies of Church and State in England.
2. Want of harmony between sounds; discord, dissonance.
a1655Vines Lord's Supp. (1677) 10 A string over-stretched makes a jar and disharmony. 1675R. Burthogge Causa Dei 398 No harmony or Dis-harmony in sounds. 1860Trench Serm. Westm. Abb. xxiv. 279 Harsh discords and disharmonies..make themselves heard. |