† disordinancen.
Obsolete.
Disorder, confusion, irregularity.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > [noun]
derayc1300
disray13..
disordinancec1374
unordaininga1382
perturbationa1398
disarrayc1410
misordera1513
disorder1530
confusionc1540
mistemper1549
indisposition1598
ataxy1615
disordination1626
indigestion1630
tumble1634
discomposure1641
incomposure1644
dyscrasy1647
dislocation1659
disarrayment1661
disjuncture1683
rack and manger1687
rantum-scantum1695
derangement1737
disarrangement1790
misarray1810
havoc1812
unhingement1817
mingle-mangleness1827
bedevilment1843
higgledy-piggledyness1854
ramshackledom1897
inchoateness1976
society > morality > moral evil > [noun] > immorality > departure from moral order
disordinancec1374
disorderedness1571
disorderousness1579
disorderliness1584
deordination1596
disordination1626
disordinateness1657
disorder1711
malpropriety1888
c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. v. pr. i. 150 What place myȝt[e] ben left..to folie and to disordinaunce syn þat god lediþ..alle þinges by ordre?
1481 W. Caxton Orat. G. Flamineus in Tulle on Friendsh. E iv They have sette it in grete trouble and disordinaunce.
1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes i. xvi. 48 Noo thyng is mor preiudicyable in a bataille than dysordonaunce.
1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) iv. xiii. sig. v.v v Yf he haue notother dysordynaunce.
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