Both Uses of
inconsistent
in
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- From these circumstances, I have thought that there is some inconsistency in our common mode of teaching languages.†
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- [15]The Assembly finally finding the proprietary obstinately persisted in manacling their deputies with instructions inconsistent not only with the privileges of the people, but with the service of the crown, resolv'd to petition the king against them, and appointed me their agent to go over to England, to present and support the petition.†
Definition:
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(inconsistent) not the same in different parts or at different times
or:
not in agreement [with something else]