dispeace

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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

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

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

But Defoe assures his readers he means to go on writing about the Union until he can see some prospect of calm among the men who are trying to make dispeace.

From English Literature for Boys and Girls by Marshall, H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth)

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

Felix, who has the honour to be pilloried in the pages of Tacitus, contrived to make the dispeace permanent.

From Prolegomena by Wellhausen, Julius