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consentaneousness

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Agreement; accordance; consistency.

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  • noun The state or quality of being consentaneous.

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Examples

  • And hence you concluded, that could this consentaneousness [as you call it] of corporal and animal faculties be pointed by discretion; that is to say, could his vivacity be confined within the pale of but moral obligations, he would be far from being rejectable as a companion for life.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • But the Buff Rock, a melody in color, shows that consonance, that consentaneousness, of flesh to feather that makes the plucked fowl to the feathered fowl what high noon is to the faint and far-off dawn -- a glow of golden legs and golden neck, mellow, melting as butter, and all the more so with every unpicked pinfeather.

    The Hills of Hingham Dallas Lore Sharp 1899

  • We must have just enough of the right knowledge and no more; we must have the habit of using this; we must have self-reliance, and the consentaneousness of the entire mind; and what our hand finds to do, we must do with our might as well as with it.

    Spare Hours John Brown 1846

  • The common impression to the contrary he ascribes solely to the fact, that the perfection of aesthetic creation requires as its condition a consentaneousness in the feelings of mankind, which depends for its existence on a fixed and settled state of opinions: while the last five centuries have been a period not of settling, but of unsettling and decomposing, the most general beliefs and sentiments of mankind.

    Auguste Comte and Positivism John Stuart Mill 1839

  • And hence you concluded, that could this consentaneousness [as you call it] of corporal and animal faculties be pointed by discretion; that is to say, could his vivacity be confined within the pale of but moral obligations, he would be far from being rejectable as a companion for life.

    Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 Samuel Richardson 1725

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  • And hence you concluded, that could this consentaneousness, as you called it, of corporal and animal faculties be pointed by discretion; that is to say, could his vivacity be confined within the pale of but moral obligations; he would be far from being rejectible as a companion for life.

    Clarissa Harlowe to Anna Howe, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson

    December 4, 2007