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Dissensioun, Dissentioun, n. Also: dissensiown, -ioune; dyss-, dissentyown(e; discensioun(e, -cioun, -tioun, -tion(e; descencioun, dess-, diecensioun, desentioun. [ME. dissencioun, -ciun (c 1300), -siun, etc., OF. dissension, -cion, L. dissensio.]
1. Disagreement, discord.(a) 1375 Barb. in c1420 Wynt. viii. 134.
Inwy … Amang thame mad dissensiown a1500 Henr. Test. Cress. 183.
Mars, the god of ire, Of strife, debait, and all dissensioun 1562-3 Winȝet II. 3/6.
In this … maist dangerous tyme of schisme and dissensioun 1563-1570 Buch. Wr. 47.
Ane of the principal instrumentis that nurissit dissensioun betuix hir and the king 1581 Cath. Tr. 104/5.
In tyme of ceuill dissensione aganis the lauchfull magistrat(b) c1420 Wynt. vii. 1626.
Dyssentyown … wes apperand Between the fadyr and the swne Ib. 2259.
In thare dissentyown a1500 Henr. III. 141/41 (B).
O wicket tung, sawand dissentioun c1500-c1512 Dunb. lxxi. 12 (B).
Quhilk … daly caussis grit dissentioun 1525 Douglas Chart. 222.
Geif ony dissention … sal happyn … anent … actions criminall or cewil a1578 Pitsc. I. 6/26.
Schaw him … Quhat troubill, quhat cummar and quhat dissentioun Fell in this cuntrie(c) 1456 Hay I. 100/25.
It has nane othir regarde, bot … [to] ger discensioun turne in pes Ib. II. 67/6.
That folk is bot in divisioun and discensioun Brus i. 48.
Enwy, that is sa feloune Maid amang thaim gret discencioun c1475 Wall. x. 167.
The tothir Scottis, that saw this discentioun, For disconford to leiff the feild was boun 1513 Doug. xi. Prol. 20.
Not for thou lyst to mak discentioun 1531 Bell. Boece II. 333.
At this time, rais gret discention betwix King Johne … and his nobillis 1560 Rolland Seven S. 7497.
Ȝe sall ken all the strife And discentioun, betuix vs and ȝour wife a1578 Pitsc. I. 22/22.
Gif our discentione haue ony fordar prograce 1602 Misc. Spald. C. II. 290.
We heff chosin rather barnlie to conclud charité nor vyslie to foster discenttioun(d) 1491 Lennox Mun. 143.
Geif it hapynis … descencioun or trobill to be betuixt thar folkis a1578 Pitsc. I. 44/8.
The werie occatioun of all desentioun and discord amangis nobillmen 1575 St. A. Baxter Bks. 22.
David Reikart for diecensioun and transgressioun of the pais to pay viij s.
2. An instance of disagreement or discord. 1456 Hay I. 3/15.
I se all Cristyndome sa grevit … of weris, discensiouns, thiftis and reveryis 1533 Bell. Livy I. 207/7.
The fenȝeing of civil dissensions was nocht bot ane new remede … to covir thare febill cowarty a1578 Pitsc. I. 15/16.
In this mean tyme mony gret dissentiounis rais amang ws Ib. 139/12.
To aggrie all quarrellis and desentiounis betuix the king, … and the Duik of Ȝork
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