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Webster 1913 Edition

Dissension

Dis-sen′sion

,
Noun.
[L.
dissensio
: cf. F.
dissension
. See
Dissent
.]
Disagreement in opinion, usually of a violent character, producing warm debates or angry words; contention in words; partisan and contentious divisions; breach of friendship and union; strife; discord; quarrel.
Paul and Barnabas had no small
dissension
and disputation with them.
Acts xv. 2.
Debates,
dissension
, uproars are thy joy.
Dryden.
A seditious person and raiser-up of
dissension
among the people.
Robynson (More’s Utopia).

Webster 1828 Edition

Dissension

DISSENSION

,
Noun.
[L., to think.] Disagreement in opinion, usually a disagreement which is violent, producing warm debates or angry words; contention in words; strife; discord; quarrel; breach of friendship and union.
Debates, dissensions, uproars are thy joy.
Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension with them. Acts 15.
We see dissensions in church and state, in towns, parishes, and families, and the word is sometimes applied to differences which produce war; as the dissensions between the houses of York and Lancaster in England.

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