Him vs Discord - What's the difference?
him | discord |
# With dative effect or as an indirect object.
#* '1897' (578 m)'', (Bram Stoker), ''Dracula :
# Following a preposition.
#* '1813' (553 m)'', (Jane Austen), ''Pride and Prejudice :
# With accusative effect or as a direct object.
#* '1853' (565 m)'', (Charles Dickens), ''Bleak House :
* '1526' (465 m)'', (William Tyndale), trans. ''Bible , Acts XII:
* '1765' (538 m)'',
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:
* '2003' (611 m)'', Claire Cozens, ''The Guardian , 11 Jun 2003:
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
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
- ‘I promise,’ he said as I gave him the papers.
- She was in no humour for conversation with anyone but himself; and to him she had hardly courage to speak.
- ‘He's got it buttoned in his breast. I saw him put it there.’
- Apon a daye apoynted, the kynge arayed hym' in royall apparell, and set ' hym in his seate, and made an oracion unto them.
- 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.
- Before my body, I throw my warlike Shield: Lay on Macduffe, And damn'd be him , that first cries hold, enough.
- Lowe quit the West Wing last year amid rumours that he was unhappy that his co-stars earned more than him .
See also
(English personal pronouns)See also
* he * his * her * themStatistics
*discord
English
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.