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Favorite Books
Hurry Home Candy
by Meindert Dejong
David and the Phoenix
by Edward Ormondroyd
by Meindert Dejong
David and the Phoenix
by Edward Ormondroyd
Favorite Contemporary Authors
Michael Ondaatje
Siri Hustvedt
Vikram Seth
Teju Cole
Siri Hustvedt
Vikram Seth
Teju Cole
Favorite Authors of All Time
Virginia Woolf
D.H. Lawrence
Thomas Hardy
Emily Bronte
George Eliot
Joseph Conrad
Mary Shelley
Shakespeare
D.H. Lawrence
Thomas Hardy
Emily Bronte
George Eliot
Joseph Conrad
Mary Shelley
Shakespeare
Significant Others
Margaret Cavendish
Mary Wollestonecraft
Mary Wollestonecraft
Blog Archive
My Blog List
OED
One of the great things about being a grad student at Georgia State is that I have access to the OED -- the Oxford English Dictionary!
Dissonance
1. The quality or fact of being dissonant; an inharmonious or harsh sound or combination of sounds; = DISCORD 3a, 4. spec. in Music, A combination of tones causing beats (cf. BEAT n.1 8), and thus producing a harsh effect; also, a note which in combination with others produces this effect.
P. HALL Postscr., ILTON 548 tr. I. DDISON No. 29 7 ELMOTH (1763) 64 OUTHEY VI. USELEY viii. 95 ROADHOUSE 301
fig. AMERTON V.
2. Want of concord or harmony (between things); disagreement, incongruity; = DISCORD 2.
ANMER (1633) 47 ERKELEY §43 IRBYP. xlvii. (1828) IV. 381 YNDALL (1879) I. iii. 83
Dissonance
1. The quality or fact of being dissonant; an inharmonious or harsh sound or combination of sounds; = DISCORD 3a, 4. spec. in Music, A combination of tones causing beats (cf. BEAT n.1 8), and thus producing a harsh effect; also, a note which in combination with others produces this effect.
P. HALL Postscr., ILTON 548 tr. I. DDISON No. 29 7 ELMOTH (1763) 64 OUTHEY VI. USELEY viii. 95 ROADHOUSE 301
fig. AMERTON V.
2. Want of concord or harmony (between things); disagreement, incongruity; = DISCORD 2.
ANMER (1633) 47 ERKELEY §43 IRBYP. xlvii. (1828) IV. 381 YNDALL (1879) I. iii. 83
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