n. [ Cf. F. assonance. See Assonant. ] 1. Resemblance of sound. “The disagreeable assonance of ‘sheath' and ‘sheathed.'” Steevens. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. (Pros.) A peculiar species of rhyme, in which the last accented vowel and those which follow it in one word correspond in sound with the vowels of another word, while the consonants of the two words are unlike in sound; as, calamo and platano, baby and chary. [ 1913 Webster ]
The assonance is peculiar to the Spaniard. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]
3. Incomplete correspondence. [ 1913 Webster ]
Assonance between facts seemingly remote. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]
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