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1571 R. Cavendish Image Nature & Grace iii. f. 22 Hys owne miserable condition..was founde the onely iarring, and discordant stringe from the sweete consent of that harmony.

1610 T. Bell Catholique Triumph x. 302 Cardinall Bellarmine holdeth..that the Bread is transubstantiated into the Body of Christ... Will yee heare what the learned Fryer S.R. sayth to this discordant melodie?

a1672 P. Sterry Disc. Freedom of Will (1675) ii. 184 These discordant notes, these dark lines and stroaks in the Evangelical melody of the eternal Word,..become themselves most rich heightnings.

1734 M. Jones Let. Aug. in Misc. in Prose & Verse (1760) 305 I found that his Help-mate had some discordant Notes in her Composition.

1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 787 No passion touches a discordant string, But all is harmony and love.

1859 Harper's Mag. Feb. 357/2 Since our first acquaintance with each other no discordant note had ever marred the harmony of our intercourse.

1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker xxiii. 490 The discordant note had been struck, and its harmonics tingled in the brain.

1909 Western Chrisitan Advocate 14 Apr. 23/1 A nobler religion is taking the place of the old ones, which will reconcile..the Jew with the Gentile, and change the world's discordant music.

1925 Today's Housewife Feb. 6/1 In the harmonious beauty of earth and sky, the town struck a discordant note.

1974 B. M. Weissman H. Hoover & Famine Relief to Soviet Russia vii. 174 The only discordant note during this period of general harmony was a dispute about the disposition of surplus ARA supplies.

2009 Daily Tel. 22 June 18/1 I hate to sound a discordant note, but if you want to connect with the past, the day (or night) to celebrate Midsummer Eve is tomorrow.