discongruityn.

1624 R. Montagu Gagg for New Gospell? iii. 42 Vpon Erasmus bare word, who sauoured some discongruity..of stile.

1625 R. Montagu Appello Cæsarem ii. vi. 163 That much discongruity betwixt Him and us.

1695 J. Norris Lett. conc. Love of God App. 299 He [sc. God] leaves it not to my Reason to explore and sift out the Congruities or Discongruities of other Bodies with mine.

1727 M. Earbery tr. T. Burnet Of State of Dead I. iii. 80 The Soul forms its absolute Judgment upon them in itself, by a Congruity and Discongruity with its own Nature.

1765 Petition of James Rose of Clava 6 The discongruity of the summons and decreet of constitution to the receipt and obligement upon which it proceeded.

a1806 Bp. Worsley Serm. (1811) II. 72 Internal perceptions of moral fitnesses and discongruities.

1895 Expository Times Apr. 335/1 Both scholars obviate the two main discongruities of the existing context.

1927 L. H. Jenks Migration of Brit. Capital to 1875 ix. 264 Between the universal desire for progress and the equally universal desire for lower taxes there was a discongruity which could be bridged only by public borrowing.

2006 J. T. Fishel & M. G. Manwaring Uncomfortable Wars Revisited ii. 37 Regional conflict arising from discongruity between cultural identity and the vagaries of state boundaries.