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 Lincoln, Abraham
One day I shall know the value and law of this discrepance.
From Essays — Second Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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 Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
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
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
