Definition of Dissension

Dissension

Disagreement in opinion, usually of a violent character, producing warm debates or angry words; contention in words; partisan and contentious divisions; breach of friendship and union; strife; discord; quarrel.

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Dissension Quotations

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.
H. G. Wells

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.
Thorstein Veblen

Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.
Samuel E. Morison

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Dissension Translations

dissension in French is antagonisme
dissension in German is Meinungsverschiedenheit, Zwietracht
dissension in Italian is dissenso
dissension in Latin is seditio
dissension in Norwegian is uenighet
dissension in Swedish is oenighet

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