Both Uses of
consonant
in
War and Peace
- The naval officer spoke in a particularly sonorous, musical, and aristocratic baritone voice, pleasantly swallowing his r's and generally slurring his consonants: the voice of a man calling out to his servant, "Heah!"
Chpt 9 *consonants = speech sounds that are not vowels
- And yet it is difficult to imagine an historical character whose activity was so unswervingly directed to a single aim; and it would be difficult to imagine any aim more worthy or more consonant with the will of the whole people.
Chpt 15 *consonant = in keeping
Definitions:
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(1)
(consonant as in: consonant or vowel?) a letter of the alphabet (or a speech sound) that is not a vowel
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(2)
(consonant as in: in consonance with) in keeping with (or consistent with, or in harmony with)