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alternacy ? Obs.|ælˈtɜːnəsɪ, ɒl-|
[f. alternate: see -acy.]
Alternate condition; alternateness; alternation.
1731Hales Stat. Ess. I. 122 As any liquor in a thermometer rises and falls with the alternacies of heat and cold. 1782Gilpin Observ. Wye (1789) 22 A kind of alternacy takes place: what is, this year, a thicket; may, the next, be an open grove. 1795H. Walpole Corr. (1837) III. 467 The softening alternacy of vowels and consonants. |