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- noun Plural form of
dissension .
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Examples
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+ Schism and disunion he brands as crimes to be classed with murder and debauchery, and declares that those guilty of "dissensions" and
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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But the "dissensions" the President spoke of were natural enough.
Pickwickian Studies Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald 1879
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Florence -- Republics always disunited -- Some differences are injurious; others not so -- The kind of dissensions prevailing at Florence -- Cosmo de '
History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy Niccol�� Machiavelli 1498
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Florence — Republics always disunited — Some differences are injurious; others not so — The kind of dissensions prevailing at Florence — Cosmo de’ Medici and Neri
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Rome, the catspaw in the matter of their religious dissensions.
Chapter 17 2010
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Now will there be more dissensions, and riotings, and stonings of prophets.
Chapter 17 2010
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To my thrilled imagination it was the face of one who dwelt beyond all strivings of the elements and broody dissensions of the blood.
CHAPTER XII 2010
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She could make a meal of sun-dried fish or a bed in the snow; yet she teased them with tantalizing details of many-course dinners, and caused strange internal dissensions to arise at the mention of various quondam dishes which they had well-nigh forgotten.
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She could make a meal of sun-dried fish or a bed in the snow; yet she teased them with tantalizing details of many-course dinners, and caused strange internal dissensions to arise at the mention of various quondam dishes which they had well-nigh forgotten.
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The land was convulsed with industrial dissensions.
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