Discord

Definition of Discord

Dis`cord´
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.
- Prov. vi. 19.
Peace to arise out of universal discord fomented in all parts of the empire.
- Burke.
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.
For a discord itself is but a harshness of divers sounds m ing.
- Bacon.
Apple of discord
See under Apple.
v. i.1.To disagree; to be discordant; to jar; to clash; not to suit.
The one discording with the other.
- Bacon.

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