inconsistency
noun
the quality or condition of being inconsistent.
inconsistence
-
a variation of
inconsistency.
Example Sentences
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She shuddered, and with strange inconsistence: "No," she said, in a choking voice, her lip twisting oddly at the corner.
From Love-at-Arms by Rafael Sabatini
But the refined and philosophical sceptics fall into an inconsistence of an opposite nature.
From Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume
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
If this forbearance of the ministry was attributable to magnanimity, it stands out in prominent inconsistence with the general course of official life in England at that time.
From Benjamin Franklin by John T. (John Torrey) Morse
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
