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cadency

noun as in rhythm

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The characteristic quality is often found in an improvised arrangement of words which makes the dominant feeling that of mingling words and cadencies successfully.

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In the third generation the mark of cadency is again superimposed upon the two preceding differences, producing, at length, unutterable confusion.

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It is not a little remarkable that the arms of neither shield nor surcoat bear any label or mark of cadency, but are simply royal arms.

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When, with the quiet and poignant brevity of it, there mingles the cadency and sweetness of verse—"the soul of the hearer has nothing more to desire."

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Shakespeare's son-in-law bore the talbots' heads only, which may merely have been a mark of cadency.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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