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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Discrepance \Dis*crep"ance\ (?; 277), Discrepancy
  \Dis*crep"an*cy\, n.; pl. {-ances}, {-ancies}. [L. disrepantia:
     cf. OF. discrepance. See {Discrepant}.]
     The state or quality of being discrepant; disagreement;
     variance; discordance; dissimilarity; contrariety.
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           There hath been ever a discrepance of vesture of youth
           and age, men and women.                  --Sir T.
                                                    Elyot.
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           There is no real discrepancy between these two
           genealogies.                             --G. S. Faber.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  discrepancy
       n 1: a difference between conflicting facts or claims or
            opinions; "a growing divergence of opinion" [syn: {disagreement},
             {divergence}, {variance}]
       2: an event that departs from expectations [syn: {variance}, {variant}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  92 Moby Thesaurus words for "discrepancy":
     antagonism, antipathy, antithesis, argumentation, balance,
     clashing, collision, conflict, confrontation, contradiction,
     contradistinction, contraindication, contraposition, contrariety,
     contrast, controversy, counterposition, credit, cross-purposes,
     deficit, departure, deviation, difference, disaccord,
     disaccordance, disagreement, disconformity, discongruity, discord,
     discordance, discordancy, discreteness, disharmony, disparity,
     dissemblance, dissension, dissent, dissidence, dissimilarity,
     dissimilitude, dissonance, distinction, distinctness, disunion,
     disunity, divergence, divergency, diversity, epact, faction,
     far cry, gap, heterogeneity, hostility, inaccordance,
     incompatibility, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance,
     inequality, inharmoniousness, inharmony, inimicalness,
     irreconcilability, jarring, lacuna, mixture, negation, net,
     nonconformity, odds, oppositeness, opposition, opposure,
     oppugnance, oppugnancy, otherness, perversity, polarity, remainder,
     repugnance, separateness, showdown, surplus, unconformity,
     unharmoniousness, unlikeness, unorthodoxy, variance, variation,
     variegation, variety
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  DISCREPANCY. A difference between one thing and another, between one writing 
  and another; a variance. (q.v.) 
       2. Discrepancies are material and immaterial. A discrepancy is 
  immaterial when there is such a difference between a thing alleged, and a 
  thing offered in evidence, as to show they are not substantially the same; 
  as, when the plaintiff in his declaration for a malicious arrest averred, 
  that "the plaintiff, in that action, did not prosecute his said suit, but 
  therein made default," and the record was, that he obtained a rule to 
  discontinue. 4 M. & M. 2 5 3. An immaterial discrepancy is one which does 
  not materially affect the cause as, where a declaration stated that a deed 
  bore date in a certain year of our Lord, and the deed was simply dated " 
  March 30, 1701." 2 Salk. 658; 19 John. 49 5 Taunt. 707; 2 B. & A. 301; 8 
  Miss. R. 428; 2 M'Lean, 69; 1 Metc. 59; 21 Pick. 486. 
  
  

















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