sonorousness
- 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
The general effect of the style is produced by the fulness of feeling, the sweetness or sonorousness of cadence, with which words, used in their familiar sense, are selected and combined.
From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by Sellar, W. Y.
Homer and Rannjana often allude to the sonorousness of the bow and its string.
From Myth and Science An Essay by Vignoli, Tito
The silence is as profound as the obscurity—a strange silence that is only broken by the sonorousness of the metallic floor when I move about.
From Facing the Flag by Verne, Jules
The words uttered by the little provincial had an indefinable sonorousness.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 by Various
