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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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