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  • noun Plural form of jarring.

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Examples

  • Thus, as if they were struck with a phrensy from heaven, the doctors of the nation rage one against another; and from their very schools and chairs flow not so much doctrines, as animosities, jarrings, slaughters, and butcheries.

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • And this is not from any jarrings or disorder between the distinct faculties of the soul itself,

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • He makes a perfect harmony out of all those seeming jarrings and discords.

    The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination 1959

  • Also a rapid motion of heavy parts of machinery, and the necessarily severe concussions and jarrings can not fail destroying costly working parts in the engine, and necessitating heavy and expensive repairs and substitutions.

    Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post Thomas Rainey

  • Third, the noise — the clump of the foot presses, the whirring of the pattern cutters — one sounded ever like a lusty woodpecker with a metal beak pecking on metal; rollings and rumblings from the floor above; jarrings and shakings from below.

    Working With the Working Woman Cornelia Stratton Parker

  • The network of these relations is a thousand times more intricate, the jarring of these intricate relations a thousand times more frequent, and the vibrations a thousand times harsher which these jarrings diffuse.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various

  • There came clankings and jarrings, as of cars being shifted, and then these ceased and silence fell.

    Samuel the Seeker Upton Sinclair 1923

  • Even now, forty-eight hours after the initial lesson, I am still much bruised about the limbs and elsewhere and, because of a certain corporeal stiffness due to repeated jarrings, I walk with painful difficulty.

    Fibble, D.D. Tony Sarg 1910

  • They have other things to occupy them, and are far more liable to run into danger by pushing ahead at full steam, and neglecting small creakings and jarrings until something important in the gear jams, or goes snap, and brings them to a halt, than they are to be wasting time and energy worrying over things that may never happen.

    Preventable Diseases Woods Hutchinson 1896

  • The jarrings between her mother and grandmother continued; for of course their intercourse did not entirely cease.

    Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888

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