dispeace

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You know them by their hunted, eager, restless look, which tells of inward dispeace, of worry too great almost to be borne.

From Courtship and Marriage And the Gentle Art of Home-Making by Swan, Annie S. (Annie Shepherd)

And any thing is better than dispeace in a family.

From The Twa Miss Dawsons by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)

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

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

Why, because I am a girl, should the poor lady be traiked all over the world in an agony of dispeace?

From Patsy by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

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

From Prolegomena by Wellhausen, Julius