dissension

Updated: May 18, 2025

The great shade of the venerable warrior seemed among us, repeating for our counsel and imitation his last impressive words, 'I die but the cause lives! But, alas! we observed it not. Doubt, dissension, dismay and despair were in our midst. All was dark all was defiance and denunciation, crimination and recrimination brother's hand raised against brother.

Edmund Flagg - Edmond Dantès

Already," continued Maurice, "there are the seeds of dissension in the provinces and in the cities, sure to ripen in the idleness and repose of peace to an open division. This would give the enemy a means of intriguing with and corrupting those who are already wickedly inclined."

John Lothrop Motley - History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1608b

Sainte Aldegonde, shut up in Antwerp, and hampered by dissension within and obstinate jealousy without the walls, did all in his power to frustrate the enemy's enterprise and animate the patriots.

John Lothrop Motley - History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-86)

Or was the whole affair a dream and a delusion of his own conceit and self-absorption? After another interval of inaudible talk, dissension seemed again to rise between the couple underneath the chestnut, and again the General raised his voice angrily so as to be audible to Francis. "My wife?" he cried. "I have done with my wife for good. I will not hear her name. I am sick of her very name."

Robert Louis Stevenson - The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 4

They at last came to Parliament, but so well attended, that they seemed in a condition to prescribe laws to the king and ministry. Peter des Roches, however, had in the interval found means of sowing dissension among them, and of bringing over to his party the Earl of Cornwall, as well as the Earls of Lincoln and Chester.

David Hume - The History of England, Volume I

No progress was made, and provisions began to fail; discontent and dissension began to insinuate themselves into the camp of the confederates.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)

But alas! in the midst of all this sunshine, the seeds of discord and dissension were fast flourishing. Mr. Dallas himself was always so absorbed in some freshly-imported German commentator that it was a fixed principle with him never to trouble himself with anything that concerned his pupils "out of school hours."

Earl of Beaconsfield Benjamin Disraeli - Vivian Grey

Later in the day Lute Brown addressed a caucus attended by a half dozen men, including Jase Mallows. That meeting took place behind closed doors and though a general accord of purpose prevailed there was some dissension as to detail.

Charles Neville Buck - A Pagan of the Hills

Dissension, combined with growing scarcity, gradually produced a feeling of despondence, many began to tremble at the desperate nature of their undertaking, and the magnitude of the power to which they were opposed.

Friedrich Schiller - The Thirty Years War — Complete

The dissension in the community was reflected in the ranks of the opposition. Resting on the support of the farmers, the patriots raised a loud cry for reform; resting on the support of the mob in the capital, demagogism began its work. Although the two tendencies do not admit of being wholly separated but in various respects go hand in hand, it will be necessary to consider them apart.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book III : From the Union of Italy to the Subjugation of Carthage and the Greek States