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Him vs Discord - What's the difference?

him | discord |

As nouns the difference between him and discord

is that him is male (someone of masculine gender) while discord is lack of concord, agreement or harmony.

As an adjective him

is male.

As a verb discord is

(archaic) to disagree; to be at variance; to fail to agree or harmonize; clash.

him

English

(wikipedia him)

Pronoun

  • # With dative effect or as an indirect object.
  • #* '1897' (578 m)'', (Bram Stoker), ''Dracula :
  • ‘I promise,’ he said as I gave him the papers.
  • # Following a preposition.
  • #* '1813' (553 m)'', (Jane Austen), ''Pride and Prejudice :
  • She was in no humour for conversation with anyone but himself; and to him she had hardly courage to speak.
  • # With accusative effect or as a direct object.
  • #* '1853' (565 m)'', (Charles Dickens), ''Bleak House :
  • ‘He's got it buttoned in his breast. I saw him put it there.’
  • * '1526' (465 m)'', (William Tyndale), trans. ''Bible , Acts XII:
  • Apon a daye apoynted, the kynge arayed hym' in royall apparell, and set ' hym in his seate, and made an oracion unto them.
  • * '1765' (538 m)'',
  • Though poor the peasant’s hut, his feasts though small,
    He sees his little lot the lot of all;
    [...]
    But calm, and bred in ignorance and toil,
    Each wish contracting, fits him to the soil.
  • With nominative effect: he, especially as a predicate after (be), or following a preposition.
  • * 'c. 1616' (493 m)'', (William Shakespeare), ''Macbeth , First Folio 1623, V.10:
  • Before my body, I throw my warlike Shield: Lay on Macduffe, And damn'd be him , that first cries hold, enough.
  • * '2003' (611 m)'', Claire Cozens, ''The Guardian , 11 Jun 2003:
  • Lowe quit the West Wing last year amid rumours that he was unhappy that his co-stars earned more than him .
  • See also

    * he * his * her * them

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    discord

    English

    Noun

  • Lack of concord, agreement or harmony.
  • * Bible, Proverbs vi. 19
  • A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
  • * Burke
  • 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.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • For a discord itself is but a harshness of divers sounds meeting.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) To disagree; to be at variance; to fail to agree or harmonize; clash.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • The one discording with the other.