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inconsistence Now rare or Obs.|ɪnkənˈsɪstəns|
[f. inconsistent (after consistence): see -ence. Cf. F. inconsistance (1755 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
1. Want of agreement or harmony (with something, or between things); = inconsistency 1.
1651Hobbes Leviath. Concl. 390 There is..no such Inconsistence of Humane Nature, with Civill Duties, as some think. 1661Marvell Let. to Mayor of Hull Wks. 1776 I. 27, I did not at all see what inconsistence there could be between Colonell Gilby's interest and mine. 1712Berkeley Passive Obed. §51 The inconsistence of such a state with that manner of life which human nature requires. 1764Harmer Observ. x. ii. 65 Some seeming inconsistence betwixt this and the preceding observation.
2. Want of agreement between the parts of a thing; = inconsistency 2.
1643Milton Divorce ii. viii, What may we do then to salve this seeming inconsistence? 1736Butler Anal. ii. vii. 361 Any inconsistence in its several parts. a1797H. Walpole Mem. Geo. II (1847) I. x. 319 [There was] no deviation, no inconsistence in his narrative.
3. Inconsistent action or conduct; = inconsistency 4.
1713Bentley Free-think. i. (ed. 2) 9 These very Men.. are honour'd in other parts of his Book, and recommended as Free-thinkers. What inconsistence is this, what Contradiction? 1741Richardson Pamela I. 91 Well, you may be gone from my Presence, thou strange Medley of Inconsistence! 1769Junius Lett. xviii. (1804) I. 114 Mr. Grenville was, of all men, the person who should not have complained of inconsistence with regard to Mr. Wilkes. 1897Westm. Gaz. 16 Feb. 3/2 Let them ignore the consistence or the inconsistence of the occupants of the two front benches.
4. With an and pl. An instance of inconsistence; an inconsistency.
1655Fuller Ch. Hist. iii. vii. §18 Else these inconsistences will not be reconciled. 1754Edwards Freed. Will ii. iv. 51 Nor will it help in the least its Absurdities and Inconsistences. 1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) V. 62 English jurisprudence will be found variegated by inconsistences. |