unpeace

Howe shulde ever goodnesse of peace have ben knowe, but if unpeace somtyme reigne, and mokel yvel wrothe?

c. 1384, Thomas Usk, The Testament of Love

We held with hym ther he saide leasse, / and therfor haue we all vnpeasse.

We joined with him when he told lies, and therefore none of us have any peace.

15th c., “[The Creation]”, in Wakefield Mystery Plays; Re-edited in George England, Alfred W. Pollard, editors, The Towneley Plays (Early English Text Society Extra Series; LXXI), London: […] Oxford University Press, 1897, →OCLC, page 6, lines 158–159

We were Christians; Christians living in a state of undivorce, yet striving to keep the marriage together while living in great unpeace and disharmony.

1978, Helen Kooiman Hosier, The other side of divorce, page 13

The power of love opposes the violence of unpeace.

1999, Inner land: A Guide Into the Heart of the Gospel

Indeed, I readily see "unpeace" in myself. I violate peace not only in hasty words or angry attitudes but also in failing to be the reconciler Jesus calls his followers to be. So much of our culture's unpeace arises because of greed, our proliferating needs and wants.

2001, Marva J. Dawn, Karen Dismer, Morning by Morning