Noun : the cadence of language. ,The chorus line danced in rapid cadence. ,the frenetic cadence of modern life.    From Dictionary.com. 

What were the peculiar marks of cadency used by the heirs to the crown, apparent and presumptive, after the accession of the Stuarts?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 46, September 14, 1850] Reference

This eliminates the need for an elaborate system of cadency, though to prevent confusion, the spouse's and heir's arms are differenced.    From Wordnik.com.  [Concordance A Terran Empire concordance] Reference

Heraldry — abatement, cadency, clarion, escutcheon, jessant-de-lys, rampant, talbot (I could go on for close to a thousand words as classical heraldry uses Norman French).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Logophile « Write Anything] Reference

It begins with ease, rises gradually till the voice is inflected, then sinks again, and ends with a just cadency, And perhaps there is not a word in it, whole situation would be altered to an advantage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker.] Reference

In modern English cadency, the difference of the second son, or house.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Handbook to English Heraldry] Reference

In modern cadency an unpierced mullet is the difference of the third son.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Handbook to English Heraldry] Reference

In modern cadency the heraldic rose is the difference of the seventh son.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Handbook to English Heraldry] Reference

In modern cadency the fleur de lys is the difference of the sixth son, or house.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Handbook to English Heraldry] Reference

This evangelist ends not so abruptly as the other three did, but with a sort of cadency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)] Reference

Shakespeare's son-in-law bore the talbots 'heads only, which may merely have been a mark of cadency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare's Family] Reference

But the omission of cadency marks does not appear to have been a matter of universally accepted rule.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference

The lions and lilies shone over the high dorseret chair in the center, and the same august device marked with the cadency label indicated the seat of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Nigel] Reference

Certainly no quarter of a town could use a mark of cadency below a bendlet, and Florence was more careful than most Italian towns to be precise in her heraldry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Donatello, by Lord Balcarres] Reference

In relation to the use of personal arms, although in England the ordinary rule and practice were usually observed, elsewhere an ecclesiastic seldom made use of any marks of cadency.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference

Of the natural sons of princes something could be made, as witness the dazzling career of Anne's own father; but for natural daughters -- and especially for one who, like herself, bore a double load of cadency -- there was little use or hope.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series] Reference

As a proof of this, do we not find, that the facility, which is so much studyed in music and poetry, is called the fail or cadency of the harmony or period; the idea of facility communicating to us that of descent, in the same manner as descent produces a facility?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Treatise of Human Nature] Reference

The lions and lilies shone over the high dorseret chair in the center, and the same august device marked with the cadency label indicated the seat of the Prince, while glowing to right and to left were the long lines of noble insignia, honored in peace and terrible in war.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Nigel]

What is written in metre, or rhythm, is so called from metros -- a measure, and arithmos -- a number, because regulated by certain measures, or numbers of syllables, which please the ear with their smoothness and cadency, and so insinuate the matter the more movingly and powerfully into the fancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)] Reference

"And pray, sir second son, where is the cadency mark which should mark your rank.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Company]

He lately exhibited a specimen of his skill in this way, of which I was informed by the worthy gentlemen then present, who were at once delighted and amazed to hear an instrument of so simple an organization use an exact articulation of words, a just cadency in its sentences, and a wonderful pathos in its pronunciation; not that he designs to expatiate in this practice, because he cannot (as he says) apprehend what use it may be of to mankind, whose benefit he aims at in a more particular manner: and for the same reason, he will never more instruct the feathered kind, the parrot having been his last scholar in that way.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 09 Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer] Reference

Any difference or mark of cadency.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Handbook to English Heraldry] Reference

By marks of cadency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity [microform]] Reference

Marks of cadency if any, e.g. a label.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular in the last 8 hours] Reference

In its cadency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Late Lyrics and Earlier : with Many Other Verses] Reference

F.) on marks of cadency, 303.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Index of Volume 2, May-December, 1850 A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc.] Reference