Dissension
[dɪ'senʃ(ə)n] or [dɪ'sɛnʃən]
Definition
(n.) Disagreement in opinion, usually of a violent character, producing warm debates or angry words; contention in words; partisan and contentious divisions; breach of friendship and union; strife; discord; quarrel.
Typist: Osborn
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Discord, contention, strife, variance, disagreement, difference, quarrel, breach of friendship.
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Examples
- They had gone over in two distinct bodies; and on their arrival at Paris dissension arose between them. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- In this reconciliation thou wilt own I have an interest--the happiness of my friend, and the quelling of dissension among my faithful people. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Mrs General likewise clearly understood that the attachment had occasioned much family grief and dissension. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- When once the spirit of dissension had arisen, the most frivolous causes gave it activity. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But I must not shrink from a professional duty, even if it sows dissensions in families. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But in the dissensions of the various cults comes the opportunity of the palace. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The compromise of Camillus (367 B.C.) had put an end to internal dissensions, and left her energies free for expansion. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Then unhappily the Hussites fell into internal dissensions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was only after he had turned to Christianity that he seems to have realized the fierce dissensions of the theologians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- None of her neighbours had attacked her, because she appeared to be weakening herself by her internal dissensions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Presently the dissensions of the schools let in the superstitions and prejudices of the city mob to scholastic affairs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He was confronted at the very outset of his reign in Germany with the perplexing dissensions of Christendom. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Like Cortez in Mexico, he availed himself of the native dissensions to secure possession of the doomed state. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The spirit of Jesus, for all the doctrinal dissensions that prevailed, made a great freemasonry throughout and even beyond the limits of the empire. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- With these dissensions it is almost superfluous to say that everything in Eatanswill was made a party question. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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