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The act of disappearing; cessation of appearance; removal from sight; vanishing. Addison.

Disavowal. [Obs.] South.

Discernment. [Obs.]

Failure or refusal to comply; noncompliance. A compliance will discommend me to Mr. Coventry, and a discompliance to my lord chancellor. Pepys.

ontinued connection or continuity; breaking off; cessation; interruption; as, a discontinuance of conversation or intercourse; discontinuance of a highway or of travel.

lity of being discordant; disagreement; inconsistency. There will arise a thousand discordances of opinion. I. Taylor.

To ruffle or discompose the countenance of; to put of countenance; to put to shame; to abash. How would one look from his majestic brow . . . Discountenance her despised! Milton. The hermit was somewhat discountenanced by this observation. Sir W. Scott.

One who discountenances; one who disfavors. Bacon.

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.

Freedom or deliverance from encumbrance, or anything burdensome or troublesome. Spectator.

To awaken from a trance or an enchantment. Hudibras.

The act of disinheriting or state of being disinherited; disinheritance. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

The act of disinheriting, or the condition of being; disinherited; disherison.

Disobedience. [Obs.] E. Hall.

Disarrangement; disturbance. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Displeasure; discontent; annoyance. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Want of provisions; [Obs.] Spenser.

Want of resemblance; dissimilitude. [R.] Osborne.

The act of disserving; separation.

unds; an inharmonious combination of sounds; discord. Filled the air with barbarous dissonance. Milton.