disharmonic

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Yet it’s also appropriate, a kind of disharmonic convergence.

From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2014

These disharmonic shadows flitting in the room made a stir like the rubbing of dry straw or the hum of bees among clover stalks.

From Fraternity by Galsworthy, John

Vöchting distinguishes as harmonic or disharmonic the modes of union between twig and stem, according to whether or no they reach the formation of functional unity.

From The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development by Hertwig, Oscar

The first step of this series, Nature, and the third step, Art, repeat each other by overstepping the second, which is Science, as Do is accordant with Mi, but disharmonic with Re.

From Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

In that dim continual journey she was like a disharmonic spirit traversing the air above where its body lies.

From Fraternity by Galsworthy, John