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Harmony   /hˈɑrməni/   Listen
Harmony

noun
(pl. harmonies)
1.
Compatibility in opinion and action.  Synonym: harmoniousness.
2.
The structure of music with respect to the composition and progression of chords.  Synonym: musical harmony.
3.
A harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole.  Synonyms: concord, concordance.
4.
Agreement of opinions.  Synonyms: concord, concordance.
5.
An agreeable sound property.



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"Harmony" Quotes from Famous Books



... individual rights and personal sovereignty. They have accordingly shaped their institutions in harmony with this view. In Germany the man is educated largely for the State, but here we educate the man as a citizen and as an individual whose intrinsic dignity and value are worthy of training. The American college makes adequate provision for the full development of all the human powers ...
— Colleges in America • John Marshall Barker
... time there was no thought of separating from the State Church and establishing a distinct denomination, and Zinzendorf believed that the Unitas Fratrum could exist as a 'society' working in, and in harmony with, the State Church of whatever nation it might enter. This idea, borrowed probably from Spener's "ecclesiolae in ecclesia", clung to him, even after circumstances had forced the Unity to declare its independence and the validity of the ordination of its ministry, ...
— The Moravians in Georgia - 1735-1740 • Adelaide L. Fries
... long the day seems by comparison with the night when I sleep out of doors. A sleepless night in a house is an eternity, but it is only a brief interlude under the stars. I believe the animal creation that sleeps in the field is so in harmony with nature and so unself-conscious that night does not seem more than a quarter of an hour and a little cloudy weather. Perhaps the butterflies do not even realise that night endures; darkness comes—they sleep; darkness flees—they wake again. I think they ...
— A Tramp's Sketches • Stephen Graham
... a limping walk, for he could hardly stand on his feet. He uttered a few words of sorrow, in an affected voice and then stopped, for tears, he said, were not in harmony ...
— The Blue Bird for Children - The Wonderful Adventures of Tyltyl and Mytyl in Search of Happiness • Georgette Leblanc
... continuous. There was pondering upon the fact that the only difference between heat and electricity is one of molecular arrangement. Heat is a molecular motion like that of electricity, without the symmetry and harmony of action electricity has. The vibrations of electricity are accomplished rapidly, and without loss. Those of heat are slow, and greatly radiated. When a current of electricity reaches a place in the conductor where it cannot pass easily, and the orderly ...
— Steam Steel and Electricity • James W. Steele


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