All 4 Uses of
dissonance
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- A baker's cart had already rattled through the street, chasing away the latest vestige of night's sanctity with the jingle-jangle of its dissonant bells.†
Chpt 2 *dissonant = not going well together or conflicting
- In the name of all dissonance, what can it be?†
Chpt 7dissonance = not going well together or conflict
- The baker's cart, with the harsh music of its bells, had a pleasant effect on Clifford, because, as few things else did, it jingled the very dissonance of yore.†
Chpt 11
- The final echoes of Alice Pyncheon's performance (or Clifford's, if his we must consider it) were driven away by no less vulgar a dissonance than the ringing of the shop-bell.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
not going well together; or conflict
especially in these two senses:
- unpleasant musical sound
- inconsistency or conflict between beliefs and actions such as voluntarily taking actions that conflict with beliefs, or holding two conflicting beliefs (also called "cognitive dissonance")