different between discordaunce vs discordance

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Noun

discordaunce (plural discordaunces)

1. Obsolete form of discordance.

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Alternative forms

• discordaunce (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French discordance

Noun

discordance (countable and uncountable, plural discordances)

1. A state of being discordant; disagreement, inconsistency.
   • 1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening, Chapter XVIII:

     There will arise a thousand discordances of opinion.

   • 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 15:

     To talk nonsense, or poetry, or the dash between the two, in a tone of profound sincerity, and to enunciate solemn discordances with received opinion so seriously as to convey the impression of a spiritual insight, is the peculiar gift by which monomaniacs, having first persuaded themselves, contrive to influence their neighbours, and through them to make conquest of a good half of the world, for good or for ill.

2. Discordance of sounds; dissonance.
3. (genetics) The presence of a specific genetic trait in only one of a set of clones (or identical twins).

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