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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false relation

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.

Moreover," he continued, after a moment's thought, "you are drifting into a false relation with Arnault, although you may not be conscious of it.

From A Young Girl's Wooing by Roe, Edward Payson

But here came in that fatal heathen prejudice, which put him in a false relation to all the living powers of his time, and led directly even to his military disaster in Assyria.

From The Arian Controversy by Gwatkin, Henry Melvill

It has put us in a false relation which was exasperating me and puzzling you.

From Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement by Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir