discrepance
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Nay, speech can Make a shrewd discrepance 'twixt man and man.
From Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society by Maud C. Cooke
The causes of the difference of our species have been the subject of as great a discrepance in opinion.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
Excepting the General's most flimsy attempt at mystification, in regard to a discrepance between Talbott and myself, he has not denied a single statement that I made in my hand-bill.
From The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 1: 1832-1843 by Abraham Lincoln
Uses: Separation of compound or general ideas into those that are elementary or more simple; knowledge of characteristic differences and discrepance.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 346, December 13, 1828 by Various
There is error and discrepance in the schemes of the orthoepists, which shows the impossibility of carrying them into effect.
From English Grammar in Familiar Lectures by Samuel Kirkham
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