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Definition
in keeping with (or in harmony with)
especially in these 3 senses:
- to sound harmonious — as in "musical consonance"
- for parts to work harmoniously together — as in "Get our departments to work in consonance."
- the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words — such as "last but not least"
- 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 could charge you withal, be even and direct with me, whether you were sent for or no. Ros.2.2 — Act 2 Scene 2 — A room in the Castle (48% in)
There are no more uses of "consonance" in Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.
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