false relation

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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

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

Under a triforium, in blind, is a sculptured drapery; again a feature more pagan than Christian, but which is here more pleasing than when usually found in such a false relation.

From The Cathedrals of Southern France by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)

It made all our explanations seem childish and untrue; the false relation was instantly exposed.

From Three More John Silence Stories by Blackwood, Algernon

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

But, as there is this true relation between money and "goods," or good things, so there is a false relation between money and "bads," or bad things.

From The Queen of the Air Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm by Ruskin, John