sonorous
adjective
giving out or capable of giving out a sound, especially a deep, resonant sound, as a thing or place.
sonorousness
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a word derived from
sonorous.
Example Sentences
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The improvisational emphases and tonality mark the unmistakable voice of Scotland's most important living novelist – trilling with hilarity one moment, plummeting into mock sonorousness the next.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 18, 2012
There is also a deliberation in the delivery—a sonorousness in the phraseology—that has something of a bygone day.
From Sketches in the House (1893) by T. P. O'Conner
Homer and Rannjana often allude to the sonorousness of the bow and its string.
From Myth and Science An Essay by Tito Vignoli
In his Tractate on Education addressed to Mr. Hartlib, he recommends that boys should be instructed in the Italian pronunciation of vowel sounds, in order to give sonorousness and dignity to elocution.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Horatio Robert Forbes Brown
They are color, luster, opacity, transparency, hardness, sonorousness, density, crystalline form, solubility, capability of osmotic diffusion, vaporization, boiling, fusion, etc.
From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section P and Q by Project Gutenberg
