单词 | raucity |
释义 | raucityn. Hoarseness; harshness or roughness of sound, esp. of the voice. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > harsh or discordant quality > [noun] harshnessc1480 dissonance1598 raucedity1599 raucity1607 untunableness1611 disharmony1656 asperity1664 raucidity1669 inharmoniousness1768 tunelessness1881 untunefulness1881 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > [noun] > hoarse or husky quality hoarsenessc1000 rownessa1398 hoarseheadc1440 haskness?a1513 roup1579 raucity1607 retuseness1657 raucidity1669 throatiness1800 yawp1835 crackiness1891 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 196 Aristotle calleth it rawcity, or hoarsnes, like the low sound of a Trumpet. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §700 In the Raucity of a Trumpet. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Raucity, hoarseness. 1755 tr. F. Engel New Theory Human Nature ii. 189 Some among us, raucity of voice excepted, speak as in the days of Brennus and Arminius. 1818 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 14 205 The obstruction of the natural passage of the air produces a raucity of the voice. 1856 J. H. Pulte Homœopathic Domest. Physician ii. iii. 524 Violent coryza, with hoarseness and raucity of the chest. 1924 C. J. Finger Lawless Lands x. 173 He was slow of speech and incurious, and his was that raucity of a lad whose voice had but recently broken. 1998 K. Lette Altar Ego v. 54 Yawing voices honed by thousands of pounds of private education, clashed atonally with the strident raucity of Mr de Kock's Euro-trash coterie. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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