false relation

British  

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

Moreover," he continued, after a moment's thought, "you are drifting into a false relation with Arnault, although you may not be conscious of it.

From A Young Girl's Wooing by Edward Payson Roe

It made all our explanations seem childish and untrue; the false relation was instantly exposed.

From Three More John Silence Stories by Algernon Blackwood

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 Henry Melvill Gwatkin

But, as there is this true relation between money and "goods," or good things, so there is a false relation between money and "bads," or bad things.

From The Queen of the Air Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm by John Ruskin

The persistent use of the idiom of "false relation" throughout the whole piece gives it a curious interest; and the contrapuntal and harmonic devices are also quite elaborate.

From Shakespeare and Music by Christopher Wilson