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discord
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English
Etymology
Circa 1230, Middle English descorde, discorde; from Anglo-Norman, Old French descort (derivative of descorder), descorde (“disagreement”); from Latin discordia, from discors (“disagreeing, disagreement”), from dis- (“apart”) + cor, cordis (“heart”).
Verb derives from Middle English discorden, from Anglo-Norman, Old French descorder, from Latin discord?re, from discord-, as above.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?d?sk??d/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?d?sk??d/
Noun
discord (countable and uncountable, plural discords)
- Lack of concord, agreement or harmony.
- A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
- 1775, Edmund Burke, Conciliation with America
- Peace to arise out of universal discord fomented in all parts of the empire.
- Tension or strife resulting from a lack of agreement; dissension.
- (music) An inharmonious combination of simultaneously sounded tones; a dissonance.
- Any harsh noise, or confused mingling of sounds.
Derived terms
- apple of discord
Related terms
- discordant
- Discordianism
Translations
Pronunciation 2
- (General American) IPA(key): /d?s?k??d/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d?s?k??d/
- Rhymes: -??(?)d
Verb
discord (third-person singular simple present discords, present participle discording, simple past and past participle discorded)
- (intransitive, archaic) To disagree; to fail to agree or harmonize; clash.
- (transistive, rare) To untie things which are connected by a cord.
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enmity
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old French enemisté, ennemistié, from Late Latin, Vulgar Latin *inim?cit?s, *inim?cit?tem, from Latin inim?cus (“enemy”); cognates: French inimitié, Portuguese inimizade, Spanish enemistad.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??n.m?.t?/
- (US) IPA(key): /??n.m?.ti?/
Noun
enmity (countable and uncountable, plural enmities)
- The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition.
- 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 242e.
- Some later Muses from Ionia and Sicily reckoned it safest to weave together both versions and say that that which is is both many and one, held together by both enmity and amity.
- 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 242e.
- A state or feeling of opposition, hostility, hatred or animosity.
- I merely repeat, remember always your duty of enmity towards Man and all his ways.
Quotations
Synonyms
Antonyms
- amity
Translations
References
- enmity in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- enmity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- Notes:
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