disaccord
Americanverb (used without object)
noun
noun
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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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
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
Guy's debts and unsuccess were nothing in comparison with other elements of disaccord ... and then Pauline pulled herself up from brooding and resolutely forced her mind to contemplate a happy Summer.
From Plashers Mead A Novel by Compton MacKenzie
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
Beaupere made various attempts to lead her into contradictions of herself; also to put her words and acts in disaccord with the Scriptures.
From Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 2 by Mark Twain
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