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

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

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

How vividly Christ taught that all our fear and we arise out of this false relation of our spirit to the living God!

From The world's great sermons, Volume 08 Talmage to Knox Little by Kleiser, Grenville

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

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