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Webster 1913 Edition
Consonancy
{
, Con′so-nance
,Con′so-nan-cy
}Noun.
[L.
consonantia
: cf. F. consonnance
.] 1.
(Mus.)
Accord or agreement of sounds produced simultaneously, as a note with its third, fifth, and eighth.
2.
Agreement or congruity; harmony; accord; consistency; suitableness.
The perfect
consonancy
of our persecuted church to the doctrines of Scripture and antiquity. Hammond.
The optic nerve responds to the waves with which it is in
consonance
. Tyndall.
3.
Friendship; concord.
[Obs.]
Syn. – Agreement; accord; consistency; unison; harmony; congruity; suitableness; agreeableness.
Definition 2024
consonancy
consonancy
English
Noun
consonancy (countable and uncountable, plural consonancies)
- (obsolete) consistency; congruity
- 1602 : Hamlet by William Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2 lines 249-254
- 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 can
- charge you withal, be even and direct with me whether
- you were sent for or no.
- Hammond
- The perfect consonancy of our persecuted church to the doctrines of Scripture and antiquity.
- 1602 : Hamlet by William Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2 lines 249-254