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Webster 1913 Edition


Assonance

As′so-nance

,
Noun.
[Cf. F.
assonance
. See
Assonant
.]
1.
Resemblance of sound.
“The disagreeable assonance of ‘sheath’ and ‘sheathed.'”
Steevens.
2.
(Pros.)
A peculiar species of rhyme, in which the last accented vowel and those which follow it in one word correspond in sound with the vowels of another word, while the consonants of the two words are unlike in sound;
as,
calamo
and
platano
,
baby
and
chary
.
The
assonance
is peculiar to the Spaniard.
Hallam.
3.
Incomplete correspondence.
Assonance
between facts seemingly remote.
Lowell.

Webster 1828 Edition


Assonance

AS'SONANCE

,
Noun.
[L. ad and sono, to sound. See Sound.]
Resemblance of sounds. In rhetoric and poetry, a resemblance in sound or termination, without making rhyme.

Definition 2024


assonancé

assonancé

See also: assonance

French

Verb

assonancé m (feminine singular assonancée, masculine plural assonancés, feminine plural assonancées)

  1. past participle of assonancer