disaccord
Americanverb (used without object)
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verb
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."
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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."
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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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