It is debatable if he had spoken wisely, or had spoken even in consonance with fact, but his outburst had, at least, the saving grace of sincerity.

But it considers that the inductions that can be drawn from the present Note are in consonance with justice and the general interests.

Her feelings were in consonance with the words, and Grace was very happy both in execution and voice.

She knew her history well, and she realized that the days of the Michieli and Orseoli were over, and that the supreme honor was no longer for the strong but for the pliant; this had made her the more willing that her son should partake of the facile and gracious mood of this time of Renaissance, and had led her to shape his education more in consonance with his natural tastes than with her own views of fitness for a Venetian noble.

It is the chief joy of him who lives close to the soil that he comes, in time, to beat in consonance with the pulse of the earth; its seasons become his seasons; its life his life.

As he draws it down and lets it up again with the peculiar rhythmic swing of long experienceheaping up his fire with a little iron paddle held in the other handhe hums to himself in a high curious old voice, no words at all, just a tune of contented employment in consonance with the breathing of the bellows and the mounting flames of the forge.

Uniformity N. uniformity; homogeneity, homogeneousness; consistency; connaturality^, connaturalness^; homology; accordance; conformity &c 82; agreement &c 23; consonance, uniformness.

Agreement N. agreement; accord, accordance; unison, harmony; concord &c 714; concordance, concert; understanding, mutual understanding. conformity &c 82; conformance; uniformity &c 16; consonance, consentaneousness^, consistency; congruity, congruence; keeping; congeniality; correspondence, parallelism, apposition, union.

For even though the first were adopted, the conviction and conversion of such a believer must, according to a fundamental principle of the New Church, have been wrought by an insight into the intrinsic truth and goodness of the doctrines, severally and collectively, and their entire consonance with the light of the written and of the eternal word, that is, with the Scriptures and with the sciential and the practical reason.

He knew, that the republican form of government, having little or no complication, and no consonance of parts, by a nice mechanism forming a regular whole, was too simple to be beautiful, even in theory.

Many of them, as has been mentioned already, have been connected with the army or navy, where corporal punishment is practised and flogging is not only in consonance with their feelings and habits, but is a punishment more briefly inflicted and more grateful to the planters, as it does not deprive them of the apprentice's time.

We all seemed to feel that we must be in consonance with the loving nature that had made the sky so blue and the sea so still.

That flamboyant outside my window, once yours, is as garish, and yet lacks no consonance with all about it.

Congregational singing not being customary in Catholic churches, it was probable that in Tahiti they had had to meet the competition of the Protestants, who from their beginnings in Polynesia had made a master stroke by developing this form of worship in extraordinary consonance with the native mind.

To this definition, Worcester prefixes the following: "The consonance of measure and time in poetry, prose composition, and music;also in dancing.

This would not only add to the amenities of the landscape, but enable the present cathedral site to be utilized for a purpose more in consonance with the needs of the age.

And whether good or ill comes of this war will depend upon whether they set up a similar system or one more in consonance with pacifist principles.

Full and absolute consonance is the expression of union, of love, of order, of harmony, of peace; it is the return to the source of goodness, to God.

If a fourth form should be added to the perfect chord, to consonance, there would necessarily be a dissonance.

As soon as there is a discord, a dissonance, the animal cries out, the dog howls, inert bodies suffer and vibrate; but all is order and calm again when consonance returns.

No other wish is in consonance with the aims of the American people.

Under such lofty patronage, this genial conception, so entirely in consonance with the intellectual tendencies of the age, attracted to its support every Florentine who aspired to a reputation for culture, at a time when culture was fashionable.

The consonance of their dispositions, the similarity of their tastes, and the equality of their ages are a sure pledge of happiness.

The former would have been easy, for an hour would have taken the ship within the cape; but the latter was far more in consonance with the spirit of the service to which the Coquette belonged.

This would not be in consonance with the just system of government which the framers of the Constitution adopted.

In a verso esdrújulo, the intermediate syllable between the accented syllable and the final syllable does not count, either in enumerating the syllables in the verse or for the rhyme (assonance).

There are two kinds of rhyme: Consonance and Assonance.

B. ASSONANCE When the vowels from the accented syllable to the end of the word are the same, but the consonants are different, the rhyme is called assonance.

In words accented on the last syllable (agudas), the assonance is that of the last syllable only, e.g. perdónespiró; azultú.

In words accented on the antepenult (esdrújulas) or on a preceding syllable, only the accented syllable and the final syllable count for purposes of assonance.

In words llanas or esdrújulas the assonance is of two vowels only.

In a final accented or unaccented syllable u and i are absorbed, for purposes of assonance, by a preceding or following a, o, or e. Therefore, sabia and gratia assonate in á-a; igual and mar assonate in a, pleita and pliega assonate in é-a.

If in assonance a weak vowel is united in a diphthong with a strong vowel, the assonance is called compound assonance, e.g. guardafatua.

If in assonance a weak vowel is united in a diphthong with a strong vowel, the assonance is called compound assonance, e.g. guardafatua.

If in assonance a weak vowel is united in a diphthong with a strong vowel, the assonance is called compound assonance, e.g. guardafatua.

Assonance between two single vowels is called simple assonance, e.g. sangretrae.

Assonance between two single vowels is called simple assonance, e.g. sangretrae.

This distinction is of little value, however, for verses in simple and compound assonance alternate constantly.

Therefore, óleo and erróneo assonate in ó-o; but o in a final unaccented syllable is dominated by a following e in the same syllable, and the e counts in the assonance.

There are twenty possible assonances in Spanish: á, ó, é, i, ú, á-a, á-e, á-o, é-a, é-e, é-o, ó-a, ó-e, ó-o, i-a, i-e, i-o, ú-a, ú-e, ú-o. Words that have in the final unaccented syllable i or u, not in diphthongs, are considered for purposes of assonance as if ending in e or o respectively.

Therefore, fácil and nave assonate in á-e; espíritu and líquido, in i-o. If ai occurs in a syllable after an a in the accented syllable, the i rather than the a of the diphthong counts in the assonance.

Therefore, cantares and trocabais assonate in á-e. If the accented vowel is not a, the a of ai counts in the assonance.

Therefore, Vicenta and quisierais assonate in é-a. Consonantal rhyme should not be introduced in compositions written in assonance.

The assonance of alternate lines (the even numbers) is the rule in modern Spanish.

If the composition is short the same assonance may be kept throughout.

Verses which lack both consonantal rhyme and assonance occur in Spanish, and are called versos sueltos (or libres).

d e d e. Cuartetas, properly so called, are strophes of four eight-syllable verses, of which the second verse rhymes (or is in assonance) with the fourth.

It is sufficient that the even verses be in assonance and the uneven verses free.

The even verses are usually in assonance, although the verses may have the rhyme-scheme a b a b. The Lira is a strophe of five verses, of which the first, third, and fourth are heptasyllables, and the second and fifth are hendecasyllables.

The first, third, and sixth verses are libres, the second and fourth have the same assonance, and the fifth and seventh another distinct assonance.