vocalismn.

1821 Euterpeiad 5 Jan. 164/2 Miss Davis, who possesses a peculiar happy talent in giving force and expression, in this difficult, but very effective branch of vocalism.

1889 Daily News 28 June 2/3 A professor of vocalism to the family of the Prince and Princess of Wales.

1903 Sat. Rev. 16 May 614/2 When vocalism is wanted..her vocal art is sufficient for the purpose.

1962 Black World Aug. 6/1 The high D-flat at the end of the first act is rapture in anticipation; here, if anywhere, the vocalism and the acting are the same.

2002 Sunday Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 10 Mar. 44 Callas purists whitewash the imperfections in her vocalism while pumping up her contribution to the art of singing beyond proportion or reason.

1860 W. Whitman Leaves of Grass (new ed.) 183 To oratists—to male or female, Vocalism, breath, measure, concentration, determination, and the divine power to use words.

1867 Felton's Greece, Anc. & Mod. I. 11 Rough and violent intonations embodied in mimetic vocalism the harsh, the painful, the agitating passions.

1873 F. Hall Mod. Eng. 19 We should now be talking in monosyllables, and eking out our scantiness of vocalism by nods, shrugs, winks, and other resources of pantomime.

1968 N.Y. Mag. 25 Nov. 48/1 I wish the vocalism did not come so close to being a Gielgud impersonation.

1999 Theatre Rec. 1 Apr. 285/2 Maybe the idea in casting him is to rid this well-known play [sc. Macbeth] of the virtuoso Shakespearian vocalism that can indeed spoil it.

1836 J. Bosworth Origin Germanic & Scand. Langs. & Nations xii. 168 The comparative etymologist must be able to reduce the vocalism of the dialect to its original type.

1873 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue (ed. 2) i. 116 There is one dialect of our family which is distinguished for such a vocalism, and that is Mœso-Gothic.

1935 N. Bachtin Introd. Study Mod. Greek ii. 31 As for vocalism, it is clear that it became distinct from that of the parent tongue by unifying different vowels and diphthongs under a single value.

1978 Language 54 184 Sicilian reflects the seven-vowel Southern Romance vocalism.

2015 A. Beider Origins Yiddish Dial. ii. 88 Generally speaking, the consonantism of Yiddish is similar to that of surrounding German dialects, while the vocalism stays apart.

1891 A. L. Mayhew Synopsis Old Eng. Phonol. Pref. p. vii The English word deer (we are told) = Greek θήρ. That this equation is utterly impossible is of course proved both by the Vocalism of the Old English form dēor, and by the Consonantism of its Gothic equivalent dius.

1909 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 30 286 It will be noticed that ‘Māgadhan’ influence has been shown mostly in the consonantism of words; and in the vocalism of the final syllables only.

1974 Jrnl. Assoc. Teachers Japanese 9 63 Replicating the process of discovering the syllabic distinctions in question and assigning them to the vocalism of the syllable rather than the consonant.

2006 P. Probert Anc. Greek Accentuation xi. 240 For the moment, I shall not treat -μο- nouns with o-grade root as a separate category from those with other root vocalisms.