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vocalism|ˈvəʊkəlɪz(ə)m|
[f. vocal a. + -ism. Cf. F. vocalisme, mod.L. vocalismus, in sense 2 b.]
1. a. The exercise of the voice or vocal organs in speech.
1864Webster, Vocalism, the exercise of the vocal organs. 1866Felton Anc. & Mod. Gr. I. i. 11 Rough and violent intonations embodied in mimetic vocalism the harsh, the painful, the agitating passions. 1873F. Hall Mod. Eng. 19 We should now be talking in monosyllables, and eking out our scantiness of vocalism by nods, shrugs, winks, and other resources of pantomime.
b. The art of exercising the voice in singing.
1884Sala Journ. due South i. xx. (1887) 255 Italian vocalism seems to me to be extremely beautiful everywhere save in Italy itself, where singing out of tune..seem[s] to be the rule. 1889Daily News 28 June 2/3 A professor of vocalism to the family of the Prince and Princess of Wales. 1903Sat. Rev. 16 May 614/2 When vocalism is wanted..her vocal art is sufficient for the purpose.
2. a. A vocal sound or articulation.
1873Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue (ed. 2) §126 In the schools, children are allowed to utter such thick-lipped vocalisms as Mosos.
b. A system of vowels; the use of vowels.
1854T. Aufrecht in C. Bunsen Christianity & Mankind III. 93 The vowels have..been well preserved... The final consonants in the flexions have remained. The vocalism and consonantism stand in good organic relation to each other. 1873Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue (ed. 2) §109 There is one dialect of our family which is distinguished for such a vocalism, and that is Mœso-Gothic. 1891A. L. Mayhew O.E. Phonology Pref. p. v, The subject of my book is the Vocalism and Consonantism of Old English or Anglo-Saxon. |