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comparative more discrepant, superlative most discrepant
Showing difference; inconsistent, dissimilar. quotations examples
The Egyptians were doubtless the most singular of all the Pagans, and the most oddly discrepant from the rest in their manner of worship; yet nevertheless, that these also agreed with the rest in those fundamentals of worshipping one supreme and universal Numen […]
1671, Ralph Cudworth, chapter 4, in The True Intellectual System of the Universe
But the term ‘godlike’ […] becomes exceedingly vague, for many gods have flourished in religious history, and their attributes have been discrepant enough.
1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society, published 2008, page 29
plural discrepants
(archaic) A dissident. quotations
If you persecute heretics or discrepants, they unite themselves as to a common defence […]
1646, Jeremy Taylor, A Discourse of the Liberty of Prophesying