sonance

son·ance
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noun

A sound; a tune.

UncommonScrabble 9

Meanings

nounsonance (countable and uncountable, plural sonances)

plural sonances

  1. countabledateduncountableA sound; a tune.

    [T]hen let the Trumpets ſound / The Tucket Sonuance, and the Note to mount: / For our approach ſhall ſo much dare the field, / That England ſhall couch downe in feare, and yeeld.

    c. 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, act IV, scene ii, page 86
  2. countableobsoleteuncountableThe quality or state of being sonant.

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