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Discord   /dˈɪskɔrd/   Listen
noun
Discord  n.  
1.
Want of concord or agreement; absence of unity or harmony in sentiment or action; variance leading to contention and strife; disagreement; applied to persons or to things, and to thoughts, feelings, or purposes. "A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren." "Peace to arise out of universal discord fomented in all parts of the empire."
2.
(Mus.) Union of musical sounds which strikes the ear harshly or disagreeably, owing to the incommensurability of the vibrations which they produce; want of musical concord or harmony; a chord demanding resolution into a concord.
Apple of discord. See under Apple.
Synonyms: Variance; difference; opposition; contrariety; clashing; dissension; contention; strife; disagreement; dissonance.


verb
Discord  v. i.  To disagree; to be discordant; to jar; to clash; not to suit. (Obs.) "The one discording with the other."





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"Discord" Quotes from Famous Books



... if in confirmation of his words, just then was heard from the street a loud tumult, a confused discord of grunts and squeals. The count turned from the Italian beauty, and looked out into the street, or, rather, the great square fronting his palace.[8] The rain, which had streamed down incessantly for a few days past, had drenched the unpaved ground, and here and there, where the soil was impermeable ...
— The Youth of the Great Elector • L. Muhlbach
... reason for the growing popularity of tonal art is one of the powerful considerations for the trend from that sort which is liable to create discord. The simplest illustration of harmony, and unity and tone may be had in nature herself, for though these qualities have their scientific exposition, the divisions of the color scale are not so easily comprehended by many people as the chart which ...
— Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures • Henry Rankin Poore
... instability of power, that the preponderance of a single Assembly, are the permanent causes of trouble and discord, I submit to your suffrage the following fundamental bases of a Constitution which will be developed by the ...
— The History of a Crime - The Testimony of an Eye-Witness • Victor Hugo
... saw was a battle royal. There was the utmost lack of harmony. The rugs fought the carpets, and both were at the throats of the curtains. Then the wall-paper joined in the fray, and the din and confusion was torture to the spirit. Even the furniture caught the spirit of discord and made fierce attacks upon everything else in the room. The reds, and yellows, and blues, and greens whirled and swirled about in such a dizzy and belligerent fashion that I wondered how the people ever managed to escape nervous prostration. But the daughter went right on with the five-finger ...
— Reveries of a Schoolmaster • Francis B. Pearson
... in the sublime harmony of the material creation? Ought we lightly to believe, against such a presumption, and in face of so many imposing authorities, that it has pleased this same God to introduce antagonism and a discord into the ...
— What Is Free Trade? - An Adaptation of Frederic Bastiat's "Sophismes Econimiques" - Designed for the American Reader • Frederic Bastiat


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