Definition of Consonancies

1. consonancy [n] - See also: consonancy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Consonancies

consolidator
consolidators
consoling
consolingly
consolings
consolised
consolized
consols
consolute
consolute point
consommation
consomme
consommes
consonance
consonances
consonancies (current term)
consonancy
consonant
consonant gradation
consonant rhyme
consonant stem
consonant system
consonantal
consonantal system
consonantism
consonantize
consonantized
consonantizes
consonantizing
consonantly

Literary usage of Consonancies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom by Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) (1829)
"Can it be supposed that all the resembling words are accidental similarities ? and if not, their consonancies indicate affinities, connections, ..."

2. Vitruvius, the Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio (1914)
"For there can be no consonancies either in the case of the notes of stringed instruments or of the singing voice, between two intervals or between three or ..."

3. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor by Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1851)
"... yet the reasons are nothing but consonancies to our state and being, introductive of felicity, perfective of our nature, wise and prudent and noble, ..."

4. Vitruvius, the Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio (1914)
"For there can be no consonancies either in the case of the notes of stringed instruments or of the singing voice, between two intervals or between three or ..."

5. The Works of Richard Hurd, Lord Bishop of Worcester by Richard Hurd (1811)
"... Ep. iv 103. from Mr. Dryden's Pindaric Poem to the memory of K. Charles II. " Out of the solar walk, or heav'n's high way." Though these consonancies ..."

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