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
He gave it inflections, and distinguished its moods, and threw over it an air of system and coherency, and a certain goodly and far-reaching sonorousness.
From Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 3: Byron by John Morley
The sonorousness of conviction with which Wordsworth sometimes gives utterance to commonplaces of thought and trivialities of sentiment has a ludicrous effect on the profane and even on the faithful in unguarded moments.
From Among My Books Second Series by James Russell Lowell
A new grace invested his every gesture; a new sonorousness rang in his voice; a simple and manly pomposity marked his very walk as he passed from curio to curio.
From Penrod by Booth Tarkington
He possessed a passion for honesty, spirit, and oratorical breadth, and incredible vigour as colourist, the gift of verse cast in medallions and also the gift of energetic metallic sonorousness.
From Initiation into Literature by Sir Home Gordon, Bart.
