discrepance

Example Sentences

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There is error and discrepance in the schemes of the orthoepists, which shows the impossibility of carrying them into effect.

From English Grammar in Familiar Lectures by Kirkham, Samuel

One day I shall know the value and law of this discrepance.

From Essays — Second Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Nay, speech can Make a shrewd discrepance 'twixt man and man.

From Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society by Cooke, Maud C.

Excepting the General's most flimsy attempt at mystification, in regard to a discrepance between Talbott and myself, he has not denied a single statement that I made in my hand-bill.

From The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 1: 1832-1843 by Lincoln, Abraham

Nay, God knows it is not so, and this will not explain the apparent discrepance.

From For the Right by Franzos, Karl Emil