Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Mutual agreement.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare Mutual agreement.

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  • noun consentaneousness

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Examples

  • The consentaneity of the annals and the literature furnishes a trustworthy guide to the general course of history, until its guidance is barred by _a priori_ considerations of a weightier nature, or by the statements of writers, having sources of information not open to us.

    Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. Standish O'Grady 1887

  • The Tân-bo-Cooalney was transcribed into the Leabhar na Huidhré in the eleventh century a manuscript whose date has been established by the consentaneity of Irish,

    Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. Standish O'Grady 1887

  • The minuteness, accuracy, extent, and verisimilitude of the literature, chronicles, pedigrees, &c., relating to this period, will cause the student to wonder more and more as he examines and collates, seeing the marvellous self-consistency and consentaneity of such a mass of varied recorded matter.

    Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. Standish O'Grady 1887

  • 'Your logic is good, sir: but you are aware, too, that one individual may be a medium of adhibiting to another a mode or form of necessity, which may have more or less influence in the production of consentaneity; and, therefore, sir, if you do not comply with my wishes in this instance (you have had your own way in every thing else), I shall be under the necessity of disinheriting you, though

    Nightmare Abbey Thomas Love Peacock 1825

  • Jupiter himself, as I have before had occasion to remark, must have prearranged their consentaneity.

    Gryll Grange Thomas Love Peacock 1825

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