Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Inconsistency; incongruity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Inconsistency; discordance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
inconsistency ;discordance
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Examples
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I declare to ye that Pontius Pilate, a man dead two hundred years, dragged up with the lake slime coverin 'him and fishes wrigglin' inside of him widout eyes, and in the discomposition of the body, sits there, sir, and washes his hands in the bowl I hold for him on Good Fridays.
Sixes and Sevens O. Henry 1886
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O perplexed discomposition, O riddling distemper, O miserable condition of man!
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel John Donne 1601
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