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vocality|vəʊˈkælɪtɪ|
[f. vocal a. + -ity.]
1. The quality of having voice or utterance; the possession or exercise of vocal powers.
1597J. King On Jonas (1618) 34 Sentences of scripture, expressing the loudnesse and vocality of sinne. 1657Divine Lover 27 Now as concerninge the maner of exercising these Deuotions, it ought cheifly to be done in Spirit and mind, and without any vocalitie at all. 1794E. Darwin Zoon. I. xvii. 192 The movements of her eyes and eyelids, and of the intricate muscles of vocality. 1818Monthly Mag. XLVI. 321 If you consider attentively the proportion of vocality needed in articulating each consonant. 1829Marryat F. Mildmay xxiv, Fearing she might not confine herself to vocality. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xx. vi. (1872) IX. 122 Cats do execution for a time, but cannot stand the confinement..and object (think with what vocality).
2. The quality or fact of being uttered or utterable; vocal quality or nature.
1623Cockeram i, Vocalitie, the tune or sound of the voice. 1863A. M. Bell Princ. Speech 197 When the Stammerer can..keep the tongue and jaw steady during the continuous flow of the vocality of l.
b. pl. Vocal properties or sounds, spec. as displayed in singing.
1667Pepys Diary 30 Dec., Not understanding the words, I lose the benefit of the vocalitys of the musick, and it proves only instrumental. 1774‘J. Collier’ Mus. Trav. (1775) 91, I was informed..that I could not see him, as he was then busied in performing his vocalities. 1833J. Rush Philos. Human Voice iii. (ed. 2) 55 The five tonic sounds to which the vocalities of the subtonics bear a resemblance, are ee-l, oo-ze, e-rr, e-nd, i-n. 1884Century Mag. XXVIII. 510 What in all the vocalities of Nature is there to compare with..this cloistered melodist?
3. Phonetics. The quality of being (a) voiced or (b) vocalic.
1669Holder Elem. Speech 58 L. and R. being in extreams, one of Roughness, the other of Smoothness and freeness of Vocality, are not easie..to be pronounced spiritally. 1748Phil. Trans. XLV. 402 My present Design..is to give a List of Vowels, whereby to discriminate, as conveniently as may be, all the Instances of Vocality that occur, distinctly, in the English Language. 1874Sweet in Trans. Philol. Soc. 538 Even in the present literary English we find initial vocality still preserved in the words véin (from fana), væt and vixen. |