cadency

NOUN
  1. a recurrent rhythmical series
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  • What were the peculiar marks of cadency used by the heirs to the crown, apparent and presumptive, after the accession of the Stuarts? Notes and Queries, Number 46, September 14, 1850
  • He further indicated that "the ANC will make sure that we earned the Sodom and Gomorra that has led to moral decadency in our society". ANC Daily News Briefing
  • Heraldry — abatement, cadency, clarion, escutcheon, jessant-de-lys, rampant, talbot (I could go on for close to a thousand words as classical heraldry uses Norman French) The Logophile « Write Anything
  • Faced with rising neopaganism, the decadency of customs in Rome and Florence, it was enough to ask that people follow the Gospel to be branded as severe censors. Archive 2006-08-20
  • Faced with rising neopaganism, the decadency of customs in Rome and Florence, it was enough to ask that people follow the Gospel to be branded as severe censors. Archive 2006-08-20
  • It seemed to Odo as he gazed on the long line of faces as though their owners had entered one by one into a narrowing defile, where the sun rose later and set earlier on each successive traveller; and in every countenance, from that of the first Duke to that of his own peruked and cuirassed grandfather, he discerned the same symptom of decadency: that duality of will which, in a delicately-tempered race, is the fatal fruit of an undisturbed pre-eminence. The Valley of Decision
  • Short the joylessly rutilus out that the translucency of the sedge attrition in the joliet beforehand is palatopharyngoplasty hatefully and progressively whipsnake as mundanely as thermocautery vestmental eastward to decadency and masculinity in that caledonia. Rational Review
  • The lions and lilies shone over the high dorseret chair in the center, and the same august device marked with the cadency label indicated the seat of the Sir Nigel
  • Marks of cadency are determined and granted for life to the individual by Royal Warrant (from the 19th century, members of the Royal family do not have arms until assigned to them, and these arms are not necessarily inheritable).
  • The trine aspect to the ascendant and association with the Sun helps to alleviate the more negative associations of cadency.
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