disconˈgruity ? Obs.
[f. dis- 9 + congruity.]
The quality of being ‘discongruous’; absence of congruity; disagreement, inconsistency; incongruity.
| 1624 Bp. R. Montagu Gagg 42 Upon Erasmus' bare word who savoured some discongruity of style. 1625 ― App. Cæsar ii. vi. 163 That much discongruity betwixt Him and us. 1677 Hale Prim. Orig. Man. i. vi. 118 The intrinsecal discongruity of the one to the other. 1728 Earbery tr. Burnet's St. Dead I. 80 The Soul forms its absolute Judgment upon them in itself, by a Congruity and Discongruity with its own Nature. a 1806 Bp. Worsley Serm. II. 117 Internal perceptions of moral fitnesses and discongruities. |