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sonority|səˈnɒrɪtɪ|
[a. F. sonorité, or ad. L. sonōritas, f. sonōr-us: see -ity.]
The quality of being sonorous: a. Of sounds.
1623Cockeram i, Sonoritie, shrilnesse, loudnesse.
1864Reader 16 Jan. 86/1 An amount of sonority..ten times as much as the ten first fiddles of the Brussels Conservatoire. 1874Hullah Speaking Voice 2 We reduce to a minimum the sonority of our vowels. 1883Grove's Dict. Music III. 426 This depression of the first string..is not unfavourable to sonority.
b. Of things or places.
1879Grove's Dict. Music I. 10 The salle [of the theatre] is said to be deficient in sonority. 1883Harper's Mag. Nov. 886/2 The sonority of this reservoir is expected materially to re-enforce the volume of tone. 1897Trans. Amer. Pediatric Soc. IX. 19 The sonority of the chest, and the peculiar character of the respiration.
c. Of speech or diction.
1876Contemp. Rev. XXVIII. 240 Milton's proficiency on the organ is hardly to be forgotten in considering the richness and sonority of his language. 1881Athenæum No. 2811. 328/2 The great virtue of the regular sonnet..is a certain sonority. 1883Ld. Lytton Life Lytton II. 100 The fine sonority of the verse in Tamberlain. |