nonce-wd. [ad. late L. consonātiōn-em (Cassiodorus), n. of action f. consonāre: see CONSONANT.] A sounding together.
1844. L. Sawyer, John Randolph, 116. The ironical allusion to the bench of bishops, by Lord Holland, must have touched ‘a chord of consonation’ in the breast of the Virginian.
1870. Rutland (VT) Weekly Herald, 25 Aug., 3/4. The State where schoolhouses and churches abound, and the desire for knowledge inwrought into the character of the people finds its true status in it complete consonation and appreciation.
1889. Besant, Bell of St. Paul’s, II. 25. They make altogether—the bells of the City and the bells of the Borough—such a ringing, resonant, rolling consonation and concert of invitation.
