consonance

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Full and absolute consonance is the expression of union, of love, of order, of harmony, of peace; it is the return to the source of goodness, to God If a fourth form should be added to the perfect chord, to consonance, there would necessarily be a dissonance.

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  1. noun Agreement; harmony; accord.
  2. noun Close correspondence of sounds.
  3. noun The repetition of consonants or of a consonant pattern, especially at the ends of words, as in blank and think or strong and string.
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  • Learn how to create sound patterns that join your words; how to change rhythms and cadence; and how to create assonance and consonance, and internal rhyme. —  BC Bloggers
  • This downhome speaking manner is geared toward attracting white, blue collar voters - and is not in consonance with his impeccable oratory. —  POLITICO MAFIOSO
  • Her affinity with Bach and focus on "vertical" and "horizontal" thought informs most of her work, even if the consonance of Bach's writing is only audible in her organization of sounds.
  • Octave consonance trades with calm dissonance, and even some twisted shtetl tunes. —  Sun Bloggers
  • Hrishikesh Srinagesh: Well Hrishikesh Krishna Srinagesh has assonance, consonance and rhyme. —  Paly Voice
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  1. = French consonance, consonnance, Old French consonance, consonnance, also consonancie, consonnancie (later English consonancy), = Provencal Spanish Portuguese consonancia = Italian consonanza, from Latin consonantia, from consonan(t-)s, present participle, agreeing in sound: see consonant and -ance.
 

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