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)

Before the end of 1890, 160 at least, it began to be rumoured that there was dispeace between the two Malietoas; and doubtless this had an unsettling influence throughout the islands.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

The Highlands were filled, by the Union, with exasperation and dispeace which could not soon subside.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various

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

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

He feared the dead wife and the living; he feared dishonour and he feared dispeace; and his will was like a sea-gull p. 29in the wind. 

From The Waif Woman by Stevenson, Robert Louis