Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
discrepancy .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being discrepant; disagreement; variance; discordance; dissimilarity; contrariety.
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- noun Archaic form of
discrepancy .
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Examples
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The relationships between the actors, performers, theatre owners , the public , the audience , the media , the society and the Law , are distorsed because of this discrepance : the world inside the magic circle is trying to impose itself over the real world.
The Magic Circle 2007
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We have heard just a week ago, that a Billion dollar discrepance, disputed charges the Army says they were billed this Billion dollars for services they never got.
Tomorrow-- The OpEdNews/Zogby Poll Asks Questions Progressives Want answers to 2006
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We have heard just a week ago, that a Billion dollar discrepance, disputed charges the Army says they were billed this Billion dollars for services they never got.
Tomorrow-- The OpEdNews/Zogby Poll Asks Questions Progressives Want answers to 2006
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This would seem to me as being the biggest discrepance in the term use. morbius
Special Magazine Issues on Darwin, Evolution, ID Creationism - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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How much the important concerns of mankind are swayed and pre-influenced by manners and habits is strongly illustrated in the discrepance which maintained between the taste, the amusements, and opinions of the lively
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810
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There is error and discrepance in the schemes of the orthoepists, which shows the impossibility of carrying them into effect.
English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham
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_Uses_: Separation of compound or general ideas into those that are elementary or more simple; knowledge of characteristic differences and discrepance.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 346, December 13, 1828 Various
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Macedonians, [352] 278; apparent discrepance of the two Epistles explained, [353] 288; the second, gentler, [354] 295; loved by Paul more than other churches, [355] 296; estranged from the incestuous person,
NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889
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Either reverence, or deference, may have prevented him from bringing his prayers into entire harmony with his criticisms; or it may be that a discrepance, which we should constantly diminish, is likely to remain between our feelings and our logical necessities.
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We have indications not to be mistaken of a state of social affairs in which Conveyances and Contracts were practically confounded; nor did the discrepance of the conceptions become perceptible till men had begun to adopt a distinct practice in contracting and conveying.
Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society Henry Sumner Maine 1855
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