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discord Music a combination of musical notes containing one or more dissonant intervals Discord See also Confusion. Andras demon of discord. [Occultism: Jobes, 93] caused conflict among goddesses; Trojan War ultimate result. [Gk. Myth.: Benét, 43] goddess of strife and discord. [Gk. Myth.: Kravitz, 83] goddess of discord; threw apple of discord among Peleus’s wedding guests. [Gk. Myth.: Howe, 95] slogan alluding to disputed borders of Oregon territory under joint British and U.S. occupation. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 241] small coastal desert on borders of Egypt and Israel, the control of which has been in continual dispute. [Middle East. Hist.: Payton, 264] Catholic Church divided over papal succession (1378–1417). [Eur. Hist.: Bishop, 376–379] provokes disagreement and separates lovers. [Gem. Symbolism: Kunz, 98–99] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In response to the Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward, Sartre expressed a certain irritation with the Chinese Communists, its "central discordance between the unleashing of mass initiatives and the cult of the leader. Moreover, in some cases, the verbal and the visual seem to bypass each other completely, leaving the viewer/ reader with the provocation of their unsettling discordance. No discordance was observed between the ITS region and the pap31 gene. |
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