Crossword-Solution: ALTERNATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Alternation | n. | The reciprocal succession of things in time or place; the act of following and being followed by turns; alternate succession, performance, or occurrence; as, the alternation of day and night, cold and heat, summer and winter, hope and fear. |
| Alternation | n. | Permutation. |
| Alternation | n. | The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETAE
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greedy person
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Sentences with ALTERNATION (5)
She had a large collection of ear-rings, and wore them in alternation; and they seemed to give a point to her Oriental or exotic aspect.
There was nothing very notable about it, except the rather unusual alternation of many long, low windows with many long, low oblongs of looking-glass, which gave a singular air of lightness and unsubstantialness to the place.
But if she said little, her sister on one side and Willie Woodley on the other expressed themselves in lively alternation.
The reciprocal succession of things in time or place; the act of following and being followed by turns; alternate succession, performance, or occurrence; as, the alternation of day and night, cold and heat, summer and winter, hope and fear.
She had had, as he could well imagine, no romping girlhood, no season of careless, light-hearted dalliance with opening life, no violent alternation even of the usual griefs and joys of youth.
Quotes with ALTERNATION (3)
Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.
The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude; and it goes alone for a season, that it may exalt its conversation or society.
Walking causes a repetitive, spontaneous poetry to rise naturally to the lips, words as simple as the sound of footsteps on the road. There also seems to be an echo of walking in the practice of two choruses singing a psalm in alternate verses, each on a single note, a practice that makes it possible to chant and listen by turns. Its main effect is one of repetition and alternation that St Ambrose compared to the sound of the sea: when a gentle surf is breaking quietly on the…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1979–2015).