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  • verb Present participle of discord.

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Examples

  • Or will you use the solemn procession, adopted for the reparation of your honour and establishment of unanimity amongst the discording princes, as the means of again finding out new cause of offence, or reviving ancient quarrels?

    The Talisman 2008

  • Ontological difference is a discording distinction because it suggests that be-ing can be thought in its own right within the perspective of beings.

    Archive 2007-07-01 enowning 2007

  • The ontological difference is a discording distinction because it introduces discord into the thinking of being by intimating that to think being in its own right it is enough to determine the beingness of beings, which is precisely what happens in the 'first beginning.'

    enowning enowning 2007

  • Ontological difference is a discording distinction because it suggests that be-ing can be thought in its own right within the perspective of beings.

    enowning enowning 2007

  • The ontological difference is a discording distinction because it introduces discord into the thinking of being by intimating that to think being in its own right it is enough to determine the beingness of beings, which is precisely what happens in the 'first beginning.'

    Archive 2007-07-01 enowning 2007

  • Hence the tormenting and discording character of this distinction.

    Archive 2007-03-01 enowning 2007

  • Ontological difference is a discording distinction because it fails to take into account the distinction between the "is" peculiar to be-ing and the "is-ness" peculiar to beings.

    enowning enowning 2007

  • Ontological difference is a discording distinction because it fails to take into account the distinction between the "is" peculiar to be-ing and the "is-ness" peculiar to beings.

    Archive 2007-07-01 enowning 2007

  • Mrs. Pettigrew's screams were almost drowned in the discording crash and crackle of the falling avalanche of crockery.

    The Wouldbegoods Edith 1901

  • A discording voice and an inordinate troubleth the accord of many voices.

    Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902

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