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Sonority  n.  The quality or state of being sonorous; sonorousness.





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"Sonority" Quotes from Famous Books



... observed. It will not necessarily follow, because the metal is attractive, that its attractiveness is always of the kind purely belonging to fiction; and, as a matter of fact, a large part of it is not. Much is due to the singular sonority and splendour of the language, which is much more like Spanish than modern French, and which only a few poets of exceptional power have been able to reproduce in modern French itself. Much more is imparted by the equally peculiar character of the metre—the long tirades or ...
— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 - From the Beginning to 1800 • George Saintsbury
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... changing the places of the choristers. Putting his hand on a girl's shoulder, he moved her to the right or left as his taste dictated. Then retiring abruptly, he cried, 'Now then, up you go!' and immediately after thirty voices in one sonority sang: ...
— A Mummer's Wife • George Moore
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Words linked to "Sonority" :   resonance, timbre, ringing, timber, sonorous, quality, sonorousness, plangency, reverberance


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