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1. The act or state of declining or
sinking. [Obs.]

Now was the sun in western cadence low.

Milton.

2. A fall of the voice in reading or
speaking, especially at the end of a sentence.

3. A rhythmical modulation of the voice
or of any sound; as, music of bells in cadence
sweet.

Blustering winds, which all night long

Had roused the sea, now with hoarse cadence lull

Seafaring men o'erwatched.

Milton.

The accents . . . were in passion's tenderest
cadence.

Sir W. Scott.

4. Rhythmical flow of language, in prose
or verse.

Golden cadence of poesy.

Shak.

If in any composition much attention was paid to
the flow of the rhythm, it was said (at least in the 14th and
15th centuries) to be "prosed in faire cadence."

Dr. Guest.

5. (Her.) See
Cadency.

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