inconsistency
noun
the quality or condition of being inconsistent.
inconsistence
-
a variation of
inconsistency.
Example Sentences
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Is there any less inconsistence between the love of inanimate things, or of creatures merely sensitive, and self-love, than between self-love and the love of our neighbour?
From Human Nature and Other Sermons by Henry Morley
It appears that the Irish rebels, observing some inconsistence in their first forgery, were obliged to forge this commission anew, yet could not render it coherent or probable.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell by David Hume
Ye who hate such inconsistence, To be easy, keep your distance: Or in folly still befriend her, But have no concern to mend her; Lose not time to contradict her, Nor endeavour to convict her.
From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 by William Ernst Browning
An inconsistence of which the antients had no idea; since, on that occasion, they almost constantly joined dancing to singing.
From A Treatise on the Art of Dancing by Giovanni-Andrea Gallini
Provoked to imprudence by this sudden contrariety, this strange inconsistence, he made a futile attempt to regain her hand.
From Nobody by W. L. Jacobs
