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disaccord

American  
[dis-uh-kawrd] / ˌdɪs əˈkɔrd /

verb (used without object)

  1. to be out of accord; disagree.


noun

  1. disagreement.

    grave disaccords among nations.

disaccord British  
/ ˌdɪsəˈkɔːd /

noun

  1. lack of agreement or harmony

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. (intr) to be out of agreement; disagree

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of disaccord

1350–1400; Middle English < Anglo-French, Old French desac ( c ) order, derivative of desacort. See dis- 1, accord


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Example: Sovietologist Richard Lowenthal has sorrowfully expressed his amazement at Solzhenitsyn's "utter disaccord with the facts of recent international history."

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet there were moments during the meeting when the two leaders found themselves in what one observer called "cordial disaccord" and another acknowledged as "sharp exchanges."

From Time Magazine Archive

As any sacred book belongs to a particular age, it inevitably, in the course of time, falls into disaccord with later ideas on certain points.

From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Morris Jastrow

For to disaccord with man is to sever oneself from another's will.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Saint Thomas Aquinas

And the statistics of books and pamphlets published and circulated in France on the Italian question this year are in most prodigious disaccord with such a conclusion.

From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II by Sir Frederic G. (Frederic George) Kenyon

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