[f. L. son-āre to sound + -ANCE.] Sound; the quality of sounding.
1599. Shaks., Hen. V., IV. ii. 35. Then let the Trumpets sound The Tucket Sonuance [sic], and the Note to mount.
1608. Heywood, Rape of Lucrece (1630), B 4 b. Or if he chance to endure our tongues so much, As but to heare their sonance.
1859. L. F. Simpson, Handbk. Dining, iv. 57. When a keynote is struck, a practised ear discerns one or more sonances.
1892. G. Hake, Mem. 80 Yrs., 220. He did not look to musical sonance in his metre and his choice of words.
