cadency

• A plain ring; sometimes blazoned as a “_false roundle_”: in modern English cadency, the difference of the fifth son or brother: No. —  The Handbook to English Heraldry
• In modern English cadency, the difference of the second son, or house Cresset. —  The Handbook to English Heraldry
• For if, instead of saying, as it now stands, cannot but approve the steadiness and intrepidity, with which you pursue them_; we put it thus, cannot but approve the steadiness and intrepidity which you pursue them with_; the cadency will be flat and languid, and the harmony of the period entirely lost. —  Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker.
• "And pray, sir second son, where is the cadency mark which should mark your rank. —  The White Company
• Shakespeare's son-in-law bore the talbots 'heads only, which may merely have been a mark of cadency. —  Shakespeare's Family

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