false relation
Britishnoun
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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 Wilson, Christopher
The medical profession holds a most false relation to society.
From The Royal Road to Health by Tyrrell, Charles Alfred
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 Gwatkin, Henry Melvill
How vividly Christ taught that all our fear and we arise out of this false relation of our spirit to the living God!
From The world's great sermons, Volume 08 Talmage to Knox Little by Kleiser, Grenville
Does this not strike you as a good case of false relation?
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Darwin, Francis, Sir
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