mellifluent
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- mellifluence noun
- mellifluently adverb
- unmellifluent adjective
- unmellifluently adverb
Etymology
Origin of mellifluent
1595–1605; < Late Latin mellifluent- (stem of mellifluēns ), equivalent to Latin melli- (stem of mel ) honey + fluent- fluent
Example Sentences
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“It was then a sump of aged men with liver spots, claws, and bourbon breath, who strode the chamber with reptilian gait and hailed one another with mellifluent courtesies.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2022
Jesus is represented only by a deep, mellifluent voice, speaking parables in Biblical language.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jovial Neptune Doumergue promised, last week, in a mellifluent oration that France will never loose her sea dogs in a war of conquest, will employ them solely as sea watch dogs.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not because of the wrinkles, and the face so old it could not be alive, but because out of the toothless mouth came the strong, mellifluent voice of a twenty-year-old girl.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
"As Critic chaste, his judgment could explore The beauties of poetic lore, Or classic strains mellifluent infuse; Yet glowing genius and expanded sense Were crown'd with innate diffidence, The sure attendant of a genuine muse."
From The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 by Prothero, Rowland E. (Rowland Edmund), Baron Ernle
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