Dissension Definition

dĭ-sĕnshən
noun
A difference of opinion; disagreement or, esp., discord as expressed in intense quarreling or wrangling, as within a group [dissension among party members]: often in dissension in the ranks, dissatisfaction with those in authority.
Webster's New World

An act of expressing dissent, especially spoken.

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dissension
Plural:
dissensions

Origin of Dissension

  • Middle English dissencioun from Old French dissension from Latin dissēnsiō dissēnsiōn- from dissēnsus past participle of dissentīre to dissent dissent

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old French dissension, from Latin dissensio

    From Wiktionary

Dissension Sentence Examples

  • As events proved, it was the budget which was to provide a cause of dissension, bringing a new political movement into being, and an issue overriding all the legislative interest of the session.

  • But internal dissension was not thereby lessened.

  • The difference may be compared to the dissension between the Greek and the Latin Churches; but it had perhaps more of the nature of a political difference.

  • The dissension between a man who felt so passionately as Burke, and a man who spoke so impulsively as Charles Fox, lay in the very nature of things.

  • A divergence was already manifest, which rapidly increased to serious difference and dissension.

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