Discord vs Enmity - What's the difference?
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Lack of concord, agreement or harmony.
* Bible, Proverbs vi. 19
* Burke
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.
* Francis Bacon
(archaic) To disagree; to be at variance; to fail to agree or harmonize; clash.
* Francis Bacon
The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition.
* 2005 , .
A state or feeling of opposition, hostility, hatred or animosity.
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As nouns the difference between discord and enmity
is that discord is lack of concord, agreement or harmony while enmity is the quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition.As a verb discord
is to disagree; to be at variance; to fail to agree or harmonize; clash.discord
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Noun
- A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
- Peace to arise out of universal discord fomented in all parts of the empire.
- For a discord itself is but a harshness of divers sounds meeting.
Verb
(en verb)- The one discording with the other.
enmity
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Alternative forms
: * ** enemyte ** enemytee ** ennemite ** ennemyte * ** enemyte ** enemytee ** ennemite ** ennemyte ** enymyte * ** enemitie ** enemyte ** enemytee ** enimitie ** enimity ** ennemite ** ennemyte ** ennimitie ** inimity : * ** enmite ** enmitye ** enmyte ** enmytee * ** enmyte ** enmytee * ** enmity ** enmyte ** enmytee * ** enmityNoun
(enmities)- 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.
- I merely repeat, remember always your duty of enmity towards Man and all his ways.