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Webster 1913 Edition
Dissonant
Dis′so-nant
,Adj.
[L.
dissonans
, -antis
, p. pr. of dissonare
to disagree in sound, be discordant; dis-
+ sonare
to sound: cf. F. dissonant
. See Sonant
.] 1.
Sounding harshly; discordant; unharmonious.
With clamor of voices
dissonant
and loud. Longfellow.
2.
Disagreeing; incongruous; discrepant, – with from or to.
“Anything dissonant to truth.” South.
What can be
dissonant
from reason and nature than that a man, naturally inclined to clemency, should show himself unkind and inhuman? Hakewill.
Webster 1828 Edition
Dissonant
DISSONANT
,Adj.
1.
Discordant; harsh; jarring; unharmonious; unpleasant to the ear; as dissonant notes or intervals.2.
Disagreeing; incongruous; usually with from; as, he advanced propositions very dissonant from truth.