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voiceful, a. Chiefly poet. or rhet.|ˈvɔɪsfʊl|
[f. voice n. + -ful.]
1. Endowed with, or as if with, a voice; having voice or power of utterance; vocal.
c1611Chapman Iliad xviii. 459 The Seniors then did beare The voicefull Heralds scepters. 1842Faber Styrian Lake, etc. 100 And for the voiceful Church and poor mute world Doth he not keep his potent Cross unfurled? 1869Farrar Fam. Speech i. 11 As they supposed that Song had been learned by man first, and by all voiceful creatures.
transf.1842Faber Styrian Lake, etc. 43 Man's voiceful destinies, Like the surge of meeting seas, Are to them but a wild song. 1860Ruskin Mod. Paint. V. ix. ix. §24. 301 Death, not silent or patient, waiting his appointed hour, but voiceful, venomous.
b. Of a stream, the sea, etc.
Also in the sense of ‘full of sound or sounds’.
1613–16W. Browne Brit. Past. ii. iii. 70 To take the kinde ayre of a wistfull morne Neere Tauies voycefull streame. 1818Coleridge Fancy in Nubibus 14 That blind Bard, who..Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssee Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea! 1859Sala Gas-light & D. xxviii. 316 Our green lanes and voiceful woods. 1891M. M. Dowie Girl in Karp. 202 The trumpeters..blew long notes of inconsequent music, which the Czeremosz caught in its voiceful waters.
c. Vocal with, expressive of, something.
(a)1856Ruskin Mod. Paint. III. iv. xiv. §10 The mountains were thus voiceful with perpetual rebuke. 1863Goulburn Office H. Comm. I. 79 A law..every statute of which..is voiceful with condemnation. 1879Farrar St. Paul I. 520 He sailed along shores of which every hill and promontory is voiceful with heroic memories.
(b)1868Contemp. Rev. IX. 76 Blake's poems..run on a sort of parallel of contrast—the one creative, the other voiceful of revolt and self-consciousness.
2. Of or pertaining to the voice; uttered by the voice or voices.
1821L. Hunt Indicator No. 75. (1822) II. 177 He has less of the oracular or voiceful part of his art. 1867Howells Ital. Journ. 62 In clamorous Italy, whose voiceful uproar strikes to the summits of her guardian Alps. 1876Farrar Marlb. Serm. xxxi. 308 Every silent, every voiceful appeal to that which each of us has in him of purest and sweetest.
3. Involving much speech or argument; contentious. rare—1.
1879Meredith Egoist II. vi. 137 Dr. Middleton assented and entered on the voiceful ground of Greek metres.
Hence ˈvoicefulness.
1849Ruskin Sev. Lamps vi. §10. 172 That deep sense of voicefulness..which we feel in walls that have long been washed by the passing waves of humanity. |