cadency

Example Sentences

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The latest shield under it was Lionel’s—argent, a bend gules distinguished with some sort of label of cadency.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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.

From Curious Church Customs and Cognate Subjects by Andrews, William

Here are only numbers ratified, but for the elegancy, facility, and golden cadency of poesy, caret.

From The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Bacon, Delia

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

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony

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

From Shakespeare's Family by Stopes, C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael)