false relation

British  

noun

1. Also called (esp US): cross relation.  music a harmonic clash that occurs when a note in one part sounds simultaneously with or immediately before or after its chromatically altered (sharpened or flattened) equivalent appearing in another part

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Example Sentences

The false relation they bear to snails is the most extraordinary thing of the kind I have ever seen.

From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Darwin, Francis, Sir

As for our former experience, we were in a false relation, and it made fools of us both.

From Lady Rose's Daughter by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

But here came in that fatal heathen prejudice, which put him in a false relation to all the living powers of his time, and led directly even to his military disaster in Assyria.

From The Arian Controversy by Gwatkin, Henry Melvill

Does this not strike you as a good case of false relation?

From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Darwin, Francis, Sir

I cannot imagine how this false relation could have been dissolved more tenderly, more delicately, or more nobly.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno