vocable

• If you concede homosexual love to males, you must in justice grant the same to females; you will have to sanction carnal intercourse between them; monstrous instruments of lust will have to be permitted, in order that their sexual congress may be carried out; that obscene vocable, tribad, which so rarely offends our ears -- I blush to utter it -- will become rampant, and Philænis will spread androgynous orgies throughout our harems. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
• "[245] "Every vocable was to us [children] an arbitrary and conventional sign; arbitrary, because any one of a thousand other vocables could have been just as easily learned by us and associated with the same idea; conventional, because the one we acquired had its sole ground and sanction in the consenting use of the community of which we formed a part. —  Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
• For, adds our erudite Friend, the Saxon [script], equivalent to the German werden, means to grow, to become; traces of which old vocable are still found in the North-country dialects, as, 'What is word of him? —  Past and Present
• April 8, 2009 supplementary vocable: 蛆 qu1 maggot —  Learn Chinese - ChinesePod
• A very little would have induced him to fill that empty vocable with a name. —  Diana of the Crossways — Volume 4

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