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
The collecteurs, as well as the smaller sewers of the streets and houses, are constructed of masonry laid in mortar, and they are lined with cement which insures their cleanliness and their sonorousness.
From Paris From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 2 by William Walton
As to volubility and sonorousness they stood about equal.
From The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe by James Kendall Hosmer
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
When heard near by, the sonorousness of the sound reminds one of the cello.
From Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan by Carl Lumholtz
