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Consonant

noun

A speech sound that is not a vowel.

A letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken consonant.

adjective

Involving or characterized by harmony. Synonyms: harmonic, harmonical, harmonised, harmonized.

In keeping. Synonyms: accordant, agreeable, concordant, conformable. "Plans conformable with your wishes" , "Expressed views concordant with his background"

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"Consonant" Quotes from Famous Books

... English word has become universally adopted by the Ticinesi themselves. They say 'Waitee' just as we should say 'Wait' to stop some one from going away. It is abhorrent to them to end a word with a consonant so they have added 'ee,' but there can be no doubt about the origin of the word." The Avvocato Negri of Casale-Monferrato says that they have a word in their dialetto which, if ever written, would appear as "vuaitee," ...

— The Note-Books of Samuel Butler • Samuel Butler

... the absence of sexual passion from the novels of the masculine-minded Fenimore Cooper. One may say, indeed, that Cooper's novels, like Scott's, lack intensity of spiritual vision; that their tone is consonant with the views of a sound Church of England parson in the eighteenth century; and that the absence of physical passion, like the absence of purely spiritual insight, betrays a certain defect in Cooper's ...

— The American Mind - The E. T. Earl Lectures • Bliss Perry

... (that is to say, no mutable syllable incorporated into the middle of the root-word).[7] (2) The root excepting its terminal vowel is practically unchanging, though its first or penultimate vowel or consonant may be modified in pronunciation by the preceding prefix, or the last vowel in the same way by the ...

— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 - "Banks" to "Bassoon" • Various

... interstate commerce commodities which have been manufactured, mined or produced by them.[220] An order approving a lease of one railroad by another, upon condition that displaced employees of the lessor should receive partial compensation for the loss suffered by reason of the lease[221] is consonant with due process of law. A law prohibiting the issuance of free passes was held constitutional even as applied to abolish rights created by a prior agreement whereby the carrier bound itself to issue such passes annually for life, in settlement of a ...

— The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation • Edward Corwin

... ferocious, reader may fill up the blank as he pleases—there are several dissyllabic names at 'his' service (being already in the Regent's): it would not be fair to back any peculiar initial against the alphabet, as every month will add to the list now entered for the sweep-stakes;—a distinguished consonant is said to be the favourite, much against the wishes of the ...

— Byron's Poetical Works, Vol. 1 • Byron

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