vowellingn.
1. † a. The articulation of vowels in singing. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > [noun] > articulation of vowels
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > vowel > [noun] > utterance of > articulation of vowels in singing
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a1527 W. Peeris Prov. in Anglia (1892) 14 477 Perfyte vowellynge of a songe to the eere is delectable.
1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 284 Shee performed both so sweetely, as well for the ayring of her notes, as the vowelling of her words.
b. The pronunciation of vowels in speech.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > vowel > [noun] > system or use of
vocalism1836
vowelism1842
vocalization1855
vowelling1879
1879 G. MacDonald Sir Gibbie xxv The grand organ roll of it [Paradise Lost] losing nothing in the Scotch voweling.
c. nonce-use.
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1873–4 G. M. Hopkins Jrnls. & Papers (1959) 284 This is given by vowelling, which is either vowelling on (assonance) or vowelling off.
2. The insertion of vowels or vowel-signs.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > vowel > [noun] > insertion of
vowellage1620
vowelling1627
society > communication > writing > written character > [noun] > written character not a letter > vowel-point > insertion of
vowellage1620
vowelling1627
vocalization1838
1627 W. Sclater Briefe Expos. 2 Thess. (1629) 95 It is reported of Ioab, that when his Teacher taught him to corrupt the text but in the vowelling, he slew him without ransome.
1870 Athenæum 11 June 785/1 Our E. V., following the vowelling assigned to the Hebrew by the Rabbins, renders them ‘for ever’.
1880 Encycl. Brit. XI. 797/1 The vowelling of Greek and Latin proper names shews that the vagueness of the vowels was not absolute.
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