Definition of Dissensions

1. Noun. (plural of dissension) ¹

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Definition of Dissensions

1. dissension [n] - See also: dissension

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Literary usage of Dissensions

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, Being by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison (1901)
"I shall now proceed to delineate dangers of a different and, perhaps, still more alarming kind—those which will in all probability flow from dissensions ..."

2. The Library of American Biography by Jared Sparks (1847)
"F?ce and Dissensions. — Penn's Letters. — Changes in the Government. ... Religious Dissensions. — George Keith. — Penn's Troubles. ..."

3. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1834)
"Dissensions as to the Tariff ... THE United States continued to I«' agitated by tlic dissensions ..."

4. Scotland by Mayo Williamson Hazeltine, Walter Scott (1899)
"HISTORY OF SCOTLAND CHAPTER XIX Struggle between the Nobles and the Crown—Elevation of Crichton and Livingston to the Government—Their Dissensions—Crichton ..."

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