false relation

British  

noun

1. Also called (esp US): cross relation.  music a harmonic clash that occurs when a note in one part sounds simultaneously with or immediately before or after its chromatically altered (sharpened or flattened) equivalent appearing in another part

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Example Sentences

The false relation they bear to snails is the most extraordinary thing of the kind I have ever seen.

From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Darwin, Francis, Sir

As for our former experience, we were in a false relation, and it made fools of us both.

From Lady Rose's Daughter by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

I cannot imagine how this false relation could have been dissolved more tenderly, more delicately, or more nobly.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno

Both the deity and mortal have now reached the stage of mutual recognition, and thrown off their mutual disguise, which was a false relation, though it often exists.

From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Snider, Denton Jaques

The medical profession holds a most false relation to society.

From The Royal Road to Health by Tyrrell, Charles Alfred