An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
CONSONANCY
Noun
consonancy (countable and uncountable, plural consonancies)
(obsolete) consistency; congruity
The perfect consonancy of our persecuted church to the doctrines of Scripture and antiquity.
Source: Wiktionary
Con"so*nance, Con"so*nan*cy, n. Etym: [L. consonantia: cf. F. consonnance.]
1. (Mus.)
Definition: Accord or agreement of sounds produced simultaneously, as a note with its third, fifth, and eighth.
2. Agreement or congruity; harmony; accord; consistency; suitableness. The perfect consonancy of our persecuted church to the doctrines of Scripture and antiquity. Hammond. The optic nerve responds to the waves with which it is in consonance. Tyndall.
3. Friendship; concord. [Obs.] By the consonancy of our youth. Shak.
Syn.
– Agreement; accord; consistency; unison; harmony; congruity; suitableness; agreeableness.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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