consonance
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Consonance \Con"so*nance\, Consonancy \Con"so*nan*cy\, n. [L.
consonantia: cf. F. consonnance.]
1. (Mus.) Accord or agreement of sounds produced
simultaneously, as a note with its third, fifth, and
eighth.
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2. Agreement or congruity; harmony; accord; consistency;
suitableness.
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The perfect consonancy of our persecuted church to
the doctrines of Scripture and antiquity. --Hammond.
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The optic nerve responds to the waves with which it
is in consonance. --Tyndall.
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3. Friendship; concord. [Obs.]
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By the consonancy of our youth. --Shak.
Syn: Agreement; accord; consistency; unison; harmony;
congruity; suitableness; agreeableness.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
89 Moby Thesaurus words for "consonance":
accord, accordance, affinity, agreement, alliteration, assent,
assonance, attune, attunement, blank verse, calm, chime, chiming,
chorus, clink, coherence, coincidence, compatibility, concentus,
concert, concord, concordance, conformance, conformation,
conformity, congeniality, congruence, congruency, congruity,
consistency, consonancy, consort, constancy, continuity,
cooperation, correspondence, crambo, diapason, double rhyme,
equability, equanimity, equilibrium, equivalence, euphony,
evenness, eye rhyme, harmonics, harmony, heavy harmony,
homogeneity, homophony, intersection, monochord, monody,
monolithism, near rhyme, oneness, overlap, parallelism, peace,
persistence, rapport, rhyme, rhyme royal, rhyme scheme,
rhyming dictionary, self-consistency, single rhyme, slant rhyme,
stability, steadfastness, steadiness, symmetry, symphony, sync,
synchronism, synchronization, tail rhyme, tally,
three-part harmony, timing, tune, uniformity, union, unison,
unisonance, unity, unrhymed poetry, unruffledness
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