Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Cogency.
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Examples
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The word cogence is used to express that fervent erudition and virtuosity of the Rhunes.
Marune: Alastor 933 Vance, Jack 1975
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I'll drive them hard, teach them how to write with cohesion, cogence, logos.
Brock Cohen: A Promise to the Students of an Uncool Teacher Brock Cohen 2010
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Hoary beams supported a ceiling almost invisible by reason of height and dimness; the walls, which were faced with carved stone plaques - again the product of someone's cogence - showed a thickness of five feet where the four tall windows opened to a view of the northern mountains.
Marune: Alastor 933 Vance, Jack 1975
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In each stood a massive urn three feet tall carved from black brown porphyry: the product of a cogence.
Marune: Alastor 933 Vance, Jack 1975
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It also implies that other individuals who are willing to engage in a similar process can judge the coherence and cogence of your reasoning.
The Guardian World News Ewen MacAskill 2010
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CNN's Wolf Blitzer will present fabulous analysis of the brilliance and cogence of the question asked by a CNN reporter.
CNN Political Ticker 2009
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(To get a sense of O'Leary's cogence in years past, read his brilliant rebuttal to the Baker-Hamilton report on Iraq.)
Pajamas Media 2009
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CNN's Wolf Blitzer will present fabulous analysis of the brilliance and cogence of the question asked by a CNN reporter.
CNN Political Ticker 2009
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CNN's Wolf Blitzer will present fabulous analysis of the brilliance and cogence of the question asked by a CNN reporter.
CNN Political Ticker 2009
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Also, I wonder whether Nature’s initial enthusiasm PaulM #39 was tempered not from bullying but from Nature’s own chagrin at discovering the cogence of the opposition to the Hockey Stick.
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