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  • noun Plural form of divergency.

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Examples

  • This, I may add, will be warranted as authentic, in so far that I made him myself out of at least eighteen or twenty big specimens, with a few slight "divergencies" I may call them, such as putting in eight more dorsal vertebrae than the regulation, and that the right femur is two inches longer than the left.

    Lord Kilgobbin Charles James Lever 1839

  • May-ling, who spent three months in the winter of 1926–1927 with her mother and Ai-ling visiting sister Ching-ling and brother T.V., reported that “the divergencies between our National policy and the policy of The Third International” had “developed into gaping chasms due to the pervasive excesses of Communist Cadres.”

    The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009

  • “We worked most harmoniously for over twenty years,” Gulbenkian later explained, “but, as it has very often been the case in the oil business, personal jealousies, divergencies of opinions separated us.”

    The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

  • “We worked most harmoniously for over twenty years,” Gulbenkian later explained, “but, as it has very often been the case in the oil business, personal jealousies, divergencies of opinions separated us.”

    The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

  • Then he was arrested for "political divergencies."

    The Conscience of Communism 2008

  • There may be divergencies of views in certain areas, but those divergencies of views need not stand in the way of convergence of mutual interests and expanding contact.

    Transcript - The Hon Stephen Smith MP, Minister for Foreign Affairs 2008

  • Classical systems may have chaos since they may have exponential divergencies.

    How many species 3: an answer, and some more questions. - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • Undignified as such a treatment may seem to some of my colleagues, I shall have to take account of this clash and explain a good many of the divergencies of philosophers by it.

    Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial Tusar N Mohapatra 2006

  • He described the governors of the principal houses of detention; explained the divergencies of discipline in different establishments; and recounted that the food at Poissy was ten times better than that at

    Monsieur Lecoq �mile Gaboriau 2003

  • And I asked Director Tenet about that, why we had two divergencies.

    CNN Transcript Oct 26, 2003 2003

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