inconsistency
noun
the quality or condition of being inconsistent.
inconsistence
-
a variation of
inconsistency.
Example Sentences
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There is indeed frequently an inconsistence or interfering between self-love or private interest and the several particular appetites, passions, affections, or the pursuits they lead to.
From Human Nature and Other Sermons by Henry Morley
Residing constantly on their patrimonial feuds, and familiarized, by daily habit, with Seigneurial powers and practices, they had not yet learned to suspect their inconsistence with reason and right.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
None of these schemes, however, had succeeded up to the present, for Dulcie seemed with delightful inconsistence consistently to "turn down" the admirable suitors whom Aunt Hannah metaphorically dangled before her eyes.
From The Four Faces A Mystery by William Le Queux
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
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
