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Definition
not the same in different parts or at different times
or:
not in agreement [with something else]
or:
not in agreement [with something else]
- Its inconsistencies, contradictions, and falsehood struck her from the very first.Chapter 27 (58% in)
- To Catherine's simple feelings, this odd sort of reserve seemed neither kindly meant, nor consistently supported; and its unkindness she would hardly have forborne pointing out, had its inconsistency been less their friend; but Anne and Maria soon set her heart at ease by the sagacity of their "I know what"; and the evening was spent in a sort of war of wit, a display of family ingenuity, on one side in the mystery of an affected secret, on the other of undefined discovery, all equally...Chapter 15 (56% in)
- To pass between lodges of a modern appearance, to find herself with such ease in the very precincts of the abbey, and driven so rapidly along a smooth, level road of fine gravel, without obstacle, alarm, or solemnity of any kind, struck her as odd and inconsistent.Chapter 20 (83% in)
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