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Discordancy   Listen
noun
Discordancy, Discordance  n.  State or quality of being discordant; disagreement; inconsistency. "There will arise a thousand discordances of opinion."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Discordancy" Quotes from Famous Books



... he, shaking his head at the smile with which this was said "there is too much tension upon the strings. So that was the reason you were all ready waiting for me last night? Well, you must tune up, my little piece of discordance, and go with me to Mrs. Thorn's to-morrow night I ...
— Queechy, Volume II • Elizabeth Wetherell

... of last Christmas, fresh and glittering from the hands of the gilder. Thus, the interesting old church of St Bartholomew the Great is lined with the eleemosynary exploits of the worshipful Ironmongers' Company, whose multitudinous banners of black and gold are in abominable discordance with the severe and simple architecture of the ancient edifice. 'Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth,' is a monition apparently not much in repute among ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 436 - Volume 17, New Series, May 8, 1852 • Various



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