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CADENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cadent mean?
• CADENT (adjective)
The adjective CADENT has 1 sense:
1. marked by a rhythmical cadence
Familiarity information: CADENT used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Marked by a rhythmical cadence
Synonyms:
cadenced; cadent
Context example:
the cadenced crunch of marching feet
Similar:
rhythmic; rhythmical (recurring with measured regularity)
Derivation:
Context examples
The new moon will fall in a private, “cadent” (weak) house, so I doubt you will be strongly affected by it.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
The sixth house is called a cadent house by astrologers and is considered a gentle house, not a high key one like the house of home (Sagittarius), where you hosted Saturn from December 23, 2014, until December 19, 2017.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
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