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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CONSONANCE, n. [L., to sound together; to sound. See Sound and Tone.]
1. Accord or agreement of sounds. In music, consonance is an accord of sounds which produces an agreeable sensation in the ear, as the third, fifth and eighth. It denotes also the according intervals. When the interval of a consonance is invariable, it is called perfect; but when it may be either major or minor, it is termed imperfect.
2. Agreement; accord; congruity; consistency; agreeableness; suitableness; as the consonance of opinions among judges; the consonance of a ritual to the scriptures.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words [syn: consonance, consonant rhyme]
2: the property of sounding harmonious [syn: consonance, harmoniousness]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 15th century 1. harmony or agreement among components 2. a. correspondence or recurrence of sounds especially in words; specifically recurrence or repetition of consonants especially at the end of stressed syllables without the similar correspondence of vowels (as in the final sounds of “stroke” and “luck”) b. concord 1b c. sympathetic vibration, resonance

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 agreement, harmony. 2 Prosody a recurrence of similar-sounding consonants. 3 Mus. a harmonious combination of notes; a harmonious interval. Etymology: ME f. OF consonance or L consonantia (as consonant)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Consonance Con"so*nance, Consonancy Con"so*nan*cy, n. [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.] By the consonancy of our youth. --Shak. Syn: Agreement; accord; consistency; unison; harmony; congruity; suitableness; agreeableness.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n.; (also consonancy) 1. Concord, accord, harmony. 2. Consistency, congruity, congruence, agreement, unison, accord, accordance.

Moby Thesaurus

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