Meanings of sow dissension in English

Let them sow dissension in some community less united than is ours.

To sow dissension, dishonor, scandal, and hell itself, in her family?

After all, why should I sow dissension between such close neighbors?

Foment intrigue and deceit, and thus sow dissension between the ruler and his ministers.

She contrived to sow dissension between him and his father, and at last caused him to be assassinated.

The stadtholderess and her satellites adroitly took advantage of this state of things to sow dissension among the patriots.

He sent an embassy to the Jews outside the city with intent to sow dissension between them and the Kureisch.

The real object of these hopeless conferences was to sow dissension through the land, to set burgher against burgher, house against house.

And this he did, either because he hated the Commons more than the nobles, or that he would sow dissension between the two.

Paine finds it impossible to express his contempt for the baseness of the ministry who could attempt to sow dissension between such faithful allies.

Let every discarded, and let every would-be statesman, sow dissension in the royal councils, and pour the poison of his discontent into the royal ear.

The Shillooks were a powerful tribe, numbering upwards of a million, therefore it was advisable to sow dissension amongst them, and thus destroy their unity.

Nor did I ever show the letter to Mr. Fleetwood, for my father had trained me too well to sow dissension between parents and son.

If you suspect me of ever seeking, or even wishing, to sow dissension between yourself and my ill-fated cousin, now no more, you are mistaken.

He had been sowing dissension in the camp from an early period.

Evil men, traitors at heart, were sowing dissension between the brothers Norway and Sweden.