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dis·crep·ant    Audio Help   [di-skrep-uhnt] Pronunciation Key
–adjective
(usually of two or more objects, accounts, findings etc.) differing; disagreeing; inconsistent: discrepant accounts.

[Origin: 1400–50; late ME < L discrepant- (s. of discrepāns), prp. of discrepāre to sound discordant, equiv. to dis- dis-1 + crepāre to crack, creak; see -ant]

dis·crep·ant·ly, adverb
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dis·crep·ant    Audio Help   (dĭ-skrěp'ənt)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.   Marked by discrepancy; disagreeing.


[Middle English discrepaunt, from Latin discrepāns, discrepant-, present participle of discrepāre, to disagree : dis-, apart; see dis- + crepāre, to rattle.]

dis·crep'ant·ly adv.
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discrepant

adjective
1. not compatible with other facts 
2. not in agreement 
3. not in accord; "desires at variance with his duty"; "widely discrepant statements" [syn: at variance

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Discrepant

Dis*crep"ance\ (?; 277), Discrepancy \Dis*crep"an*cy\, n.; pl. -ances, -ancies. [L. disrepantia: cf. OF. discrepance. See Discrepant.] The state or quality of being discrepant; disagreement; variance; discordance; dissimilarity; contrariety.

There hath been ever a discrepance of vesture of youth and age, men and women. --Sir T. Elyot.

There is no real discrepancy between these two genealogies. --G. S. Faber.

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Discrepant

Dis*crep"ant\, a. [L. discrepans, -antis, p. pr. of discrepare to sound differently or discordantly; dis- + crepare to rattle, creak: cf. OF. discrepant. See Crepitate.] Discordant; at variance; disagreeing; contrary; different.

The Egyptians were . . . the most oddly discrepant from the rest in their manner of worship. --Cudworth.

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