Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as consonance.

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  • noun obsolete consistency; congruity

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Examples

  • Again, meditative people will find a charm in a certain consonancy between the aspect of the city and its odd and stirring history.

    Edinburgh Picturesque Notes 2005

  • M, — but then there is no consonancy in the sequel; that suffers under probation A should follow but O does.

    Twelfth Night; or, What You Will 2004

  • And as for those who were not themselves divinely inspired, or wherein those that were so did not act by immediate inspiration, they proved the truth of what they delivered by its consonancy unto the Scriptures already written, referring the minds and consciences of men unto them for their ultimate satisfaction, Acts xviii. 28, xxviii.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • And concerning these several ways of the communication or revelation of the knowledge of God, it must be always observed that there is a perfect consonancy in the things revealed by them all.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • The reason why men receive not Christ crucified, as preached in the gospel, is because they see not a consonancy in it unto the divine perfections of the nature of God.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • At the suggestion of my friend, the Rev.Mr. Hunt, I have restored the original readings, as in truer consonancy with the vainglorious, insolent, and swaggering ballad spirit.

    Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys Various

  • The illustrations which shall now follow, drawn from distinguished authorities, aim at showing the consonancy of Herr Willkomm's pictures with authentic representations of Elfin superstition already known to the world.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 Various

  • M, —But then there is no consonancy in the sequel; that suffers under probation: A should follow, but O does.

    Act II. Scene V. Twelfth-Night; or, What You Will 1914

  • But let me conjure you, by the rights of our fellowship, by the consonancy of our youth, by the obligation of our ever-preserved love, and by what more dear a better proposer could charge you withal, be even and direct with me, whether you were sent for or no!

    Act II. Scene II. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark 1914

  • But let me conjure you, by the rights of our fellowship, by the consonancy of our youth, by the obligation of our ever-preserved love, and by what more dear a better proposer could charge you withal, be even and direct with me, whether you were sent for or no! Ros.

    Act II. Scene II 1909

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