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Synonyms for cadences
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : keyd-ns |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈkeɪd ns |
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Définition of cadences
Origin :- late 14c., "flow of rhythm in verse or music," from Middle French cadence, from Old Italian cadenza "conclusion of a movement in music," literally "a falling," from Vulgar Latin *cadentia, from neuter plural of Latin cadens, present participle of cadere "to fall" (see case (n.1)). In 16c., sometimes used literally for "an act of falling." A doublet of chance (n.).
- noun rhythm
- And even less than to city sounds do we listen for the cadences in language.
- Extract from : « Here and Now Story Book » by Lucy Sprague Mitchell
- Every Air has (at least) three Cadences, that are all three final.
- Extract from : « Observations on the Florid Song » by Pier Francesco Tosi
- There was a certain finality in her cadences that repelled all further discussion.
- Extract from : « Kennedy Square » by F. Hopkinson Smith
- As said before it was a nice voice, and under conditions, full of cadences.
- Extract from : « Selina » by George Madden Martin
- He had theories about most things, and may, for all I know, have had a theory of cadences.
- Extract from : « Lavengro » by George Borrow
- He was anxious to discover the gestures and cadences with which they ought to be delivered.
- Extract from : « Wieland; or The Transformation » by Charles Brockden Brown
- Many of his cadences are altogether too discordant for modern ears.
- Extract from : « A Short History of English Music » by Ernest Ford
- No devil can compel me to write only cadences of such a kind.
- Extract from : « Beethoven: the Man and the Artist » by Ludwig van Beethoven
- It rose and fell and quivered and rose again in cadences of horror.
- Extract from : « The Gate of the Giant Scissors » by Annie Fellows Johnston
- "You dreamed—" She closed her eyes, her ears drank in the cadences of his voice.
- Extract from : « Max » by Katherine Cecil Thurston
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