cadencyn.
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the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [noun] > occurring or happening
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befallingc1374
betidingc1374
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event1601
cadence1603
turning up1628
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cadency1647
coming1651
occurrence1725
eventuation1728
encounter1870
occurrency1920
1647 J. Sprigge Anglia Rediviva i. ii. 8 How delightfully remarkable is it (as a most apt cadency of providence).
2. = cadence n. 1; cadent quality.
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the world > time > frequency > [noun] > rhythm or measure
cadencec1384
modulation1531
measure1576
timekeeping1593
cadency1628
rhythmus1778
rhythmicality1817
the world > time > frequency > [noun] > beat
cadence1605
cadency1628
beat1795
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [noun]
proportiona1387
measurea1525
mode1561
casure1565
moodc1570
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rhythmus1603
cadence1605
time1609
cadency1628
movement1683
lilt1841
metre1873
tempus1889
riddim1943
society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhythm > [noun]
cadencec1384
coloura1522
rhythmus1531
running1533
number1553
rhythm1560
cadency1628
chimea1649
run1693
1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. lxxi. sig. V3v Poetry..is but a Play, which makes Words dance, in the evennesse of a Cadencie.
1642 J. Howell Instr. Forreine Travell ix. 122 The old Italian tunes and rithmes both in conceipt and cadency, have much affinity with the Welsh.
1719–20 J. Swift Let. to Young Gentleman (1721) 10 Rounded into Periods and Cadencies.
3.
a. Descent of a younger branch from the main line of a family; the state of a cadet.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > lineage or descent > [noun] > a line of descent > descent of younger branch
cadency1753
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Cadency, in heraldry, the state, or quality of a cadet.
1858 R. Chambers Domest. Ann. Scotl. I. 211 Not..a male descendant..in existence, of cadency later than the fifteenth century.
1866 R. Chambers Ess. 1st Ser. 18 He is recognised by a title of cadency from his wife, as Mrs. Thompson's husband.
1885 S. Salter in Notes & Queries vi. XII. 514/2 It might be thought that the label was for cadency of birth; but it was not so.
b. mark of cadency n. Heraldry a variation in the same coat of arms intended to show the descent of a younger branch from the main stock.
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1702 A. Nisbet (title) An Essay on additional Figures and Marks of Cadency.
1830 T. Robson Hist. Heraldry Lj/2 These marks of cadency..have crept into the general blazon of many coats of arms.
1882 W. A. Wells in Notes & Queries 25 Mar. 231 James..would in vita patris have borne as his mark of cadency the original crescent charged with a label.
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