inconsistency
noun
the quality or condition of being inconsistent.
inconsistence
-
a variation of
inconsistency.
Example Sentences
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"I think it's hateful," declared Jess; "just the same I should like to see a wild horse hunt," she added with girlish inconsistence.
From The Girl Aviators on Golden Wings by Margaret Burnham
There is no inconsistence 275 in the change which takes place after his scene with Sebastian; as was objected by those, whom the poet justly terms, "the more ignorant sort of creatures."
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Sir Walter Scott
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
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
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
