ordonnance means the disposition of the parts of any composition with regard to one another and the whole. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 85 out of 100.
ordonnance is pronounced /ˈoɹdənəns/.
Why “ordonnance” is a great word
ORDONNANCE — [Noun] The deliberate arrangement of the parts of a work of art, literature, or architecture in relation to each other and the unified whole. From the French ordonnance ("arrangement, ordinance"), an alteration of Old French ordenance, from the Latin ordinare ("to arrange, set in order"). First attested in English in the mid-17th century. Unlike "ordinance" (which denotes an authoritative decree) or "order" (a simpler sequence), ordonnance is the masterful choreography of parts within a created space. It is the gravitational balance of masses in a Poussin landscape, the measured progression of a tragedy from exposition to catastrophe, and the invisible armature upon which the clauses of a long periodic sentence are hung—the silent mathematics of beauty.
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- The disposition of the parts of any composition with regard to one another and the whole.“August 15, 1833, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk
their dramatic ordonnance of the parts”