sonorous

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Then, over the awed and silent throng before him, in a voice still strong, sonorous, and vibrant with feeling, the aged pontiff pronounced his blessing in words at once simple, sincere, and gracious.

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  1. adjective Having or producing sound.
  2. adjective Having or producing a full, deep, or rich sound.
  3. adjective Impressive in style of speech: a sonorous oration.
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  • The language that they had made was unlike all others: slow, sonorous, agglomerated, repetitive, indeed longwinded; formed of a multiplicity of vowel-shades and distinctions of tone and quantity which even the loremasters of the Eldar had not attempted to represent in writing. —  The Lord of the Rings
  • The figure's voice was deep and sonorous, and it blasted Chainer's secret name through his head so violently that he felt blood trickling out his ears. —  SCOTT McGOUGH
  • Or is all this a De Quincey's Dream Fugue translated into tone—a sonorous, awesome vision? —  Chopin: The Man and His Music
  • "Apparently the High Zero group thought it would be interesting to have a Conrad brother performance," Conrad says of the impetus that brings him back to live light performance alongside his sibling, whom he says will play "violin in the form that he usually plays" -- sonorous, sustained drones. —  Baltimore City Paper
  • Clearfield's music has been described as an "undulating harmonic landscape punctuated by jagged ethnic rhythms" and has generated such adjectives as "sonorous," "taut," "vibrant," —  Los Angeles Chronicle
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. From Latin sonōrus, from sonor, sound, from sonāre, to sound; see swen- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French sonore = Spanish Portuguese Italian sonoro, from Latin sonorus, sounding, loud-sounding, from sonor, sound, noise, allied to sonus, sound, from sonare, sound: see sound.
 

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/sədoʊt;ˈnoʊrəs/
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