discrepance
Example Sentences
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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
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
Nay, God knows it is not so, and this will not explain the apparent discrepance.
From For the Right by Karl Emil Franzos
A group of strata having the same general lithological characters throughout may be marked by a great discrepance between the fossils above and below a certain line.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 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
