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adjective

Dissonant adj.

Sounding harshly; discordant; unharmonious. "With clamor of voices dissonant and loud."

Disagreeing; incongruous; discrepant, with from or to. "Anything dissonant to truth." "What can be dissonant from reason and nature than that a man, naturally inclined to clemency, should show himself unkind and inhuman?"

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... consequences in the action. On the part of the Romans the shout was uniform, and on that account louder and more terrific; while the voices of the enemy, consisting as they did of many nations of different languages, were dissonant. The Romans used the stationary kind of fight, pressing upon the enemy with their own weight and that of their arms; but on the other side there was more of skirmishing and rapid movement than force. Accordingly, on the first charge, ...

— History of Rome, Vol III • Titus Livius

... rule, we ought to change pudding into budding, because it is derived from the French word boudin; and in that case why not retain the original orthography and pronunciation of all the foreign words we have adopted, by which means our language would become a dissonant jargon without standard or propriety? The controversy was referred to us; and Banter, notwithstanding his real opinion to the contrary, decided it in favour of Wagtail; upon which the peevish annuitant arose, and uttering the monosyllable pish! with great ...

— The Adventures of Roderick Random • Tobias Smollett

... fall, and is not driven back with a recoil so as to convey an indistinct meaning to the ear. There are some places which from their very nature interfere with the course of the voice, as for instance the dissonant, which are termed in Greek [Greek: katechountes]; the circumsonant, which with them are named [Greek: periechountes]; again the resonant, which are termed [Greek: antechountes]; and the consonant, which they call [Greek: synechountes]. The dissonant are those places in which the ...

— Ten Books on Architecture • Vitruvius

... feast being ended, to dancing they went, To a music that did produce a Most dissonant sound, while a hellish glee Was sung in parts by the Furies Three; And the Devil ...

— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb IV - Poems and Plays • Charles and Mary Lamb

... frying, he forgot her marvelous skill as horsewoman and pathfinder, and thought of her only as the housewife. She belonged here, in this cabin. She was fitted to this landscape, whereas the other woman was alien and dissonant. ...

— The Forester's Daughter - A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range • Hamlin Garland

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