dispeace

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Before the end of 1890, 160 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 The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

From Christian's Mistake by Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

The 8th is against Contumely, as provocative of dispeace.

From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Bain, Alexander

Why, because I am a girl, should the poor lady be traiked all over the world in an agony of dispeace?

From Patsy by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

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)