dispeace

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Before the end of 1890, at least, it began to be rumoured that there was dispeace between the two Malietoas; and doubtless this had an unsettling influence throughout the islands. 

From A Footnote to History Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa by Stevenson, Robert Louis

You know them by their hunted, eager, restless look, which tells of inward dispeace, of worry too great almost to be borne.

From Courtship and Marriage And the Gentle Art of Home-Making by Swan, Annie S. (Annie Shepherd)

And any thing is better than dispeace in a family.

From The Twa Miss Dawsons by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)

The connection with the royal family, which had been thrust upon Clarendon to his indignation and sorely against his will, proved a new source of anxiety and dispeace.

From Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02 by Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of

Do you mean to say that it is I who make dispeace!

From Christian's Mistake by Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock