sonorouslyadv.

1595 T. W. tr. P. Leroy et al. Pleasant Satyre 57 Wherfore after that all the world had sonorously [Fr. sonorement] and theologically coughed, hauked, spit, and respitted.., hee discoursed thus or thereabout.

1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa ii. ii. 173 That pure Evangelical River, that purles so sweetly and sonorously in the ears of the Faithful.

a1687 H. More Antidote against Atheism iii. ix. 117 in Coll. Philos. Writings (1712) Smacking and grunting very sonorously.

1749 A. Hill Gideon (rev. ed.) i. 54 It [sc. the Greek Tongue] was so musically ductile, so sonorously significant, that it was naturally a full Tide of Harmony.

1772 T. Nugent tr. J. F. de Isla Hist. Friar Gerund II. iii. 79 [He] crosses himself with an extended hand, pronounces the text submissly, yet sonorously, and began his sermon in this manner.

1822 Dr. Sagar Syst. Morbid Symptoms in Good's Study Med. II. 327 The patient..breathed sonorously but without stertor.

1865 A. D. Whitney Gayworthys ix The voice rang out once again—startlingly—sonorously.

1932 Pittsburgh Courier 2 Apr. ii. 2/4 One of the phrases which rolled so sonorously and so frequently off the tongue of the late President Wilson.

1980 Washington Post 9 Feb. e12/5 The bells of St. Paul's Cathedral tolled sonorously.

2015 C. Untermeyer Inside Reagan's Navy v. 74 He read sonorously from a prepared statement.