cadency

Example Sentences

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The Bordure, both plain and charged, is a Mark of Cadency borne by Princes and by personages of various ranks.

From The Handbook to English Heraldry by Utting, R. B.

Or, when it is thus charged, the charges upon a Label may be considered to be elements of the Label itself, in its capacity of a Mark of Cadency.

From The Handbook to English Heraldry by Utting, R. B.

Sir John de Clintone, of Maxtoke—Arg., on a chief az. two mullets or, No. 75: here the Difference denotes Cadency as well as a distinct individuality.

From The Handbook to English Heraldry by Utting, R. B.

Like Cadency, feudal Differencing is expressed by various means, all of them indicating, in a greater or a less degree, the motive which suggested their adoption.

From The Handbook to English Heraldry by Utting, R. B.

The Label, borne as a Mark of Cadency, was sometimes, 179 particularly in the cases of junior members of the Royal Family, charged with other figures and devices, as differences of a secondary rank.

From The Handbook to English Heraldry by Utting, R. B.