Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Disagreement; want of harmony; discordance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Lack of consonance or harmony of sound, action, or thought; disagreement.
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- noun Lack of
consonance orharmony ;disagreement .
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Examples
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I presumed that this was a possible conception, (i.e. that it involved no logical inconsonance,) from the length of time during which the scholastic definition of the Supreme
Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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Interestingly, as much as it was the obstacle to moving forward on human rights, the key to resolving the moral inconsonance is economic in nature.
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