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He had been hearing a voice, and the voice was his own.

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  1. noun The sound produced by the vocal organs of a vertebrate, especially a human.
  2. noun The ability to produce such sounds.
  3. noun A specified quality, condition, or pitch of vocal sound: a hoarse voice; the child's piping voice.
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  • And there's a voice on the train, you know the voice was a human voice. —  Anna Deavere Smith's American character
  • When I joined the choir at school, the singing master told me that the kindest comparison he could think of for my voice was a cracked foghorn. —  SLIGHTLY WICKED - THE BEDWYN SERIES BOOK 2 - MARY BALOGH
  • His voice is so deep and sensuous - everytime I listen to him I feel like his voice is a tongue licking me. —  Vespertine Erotica
  • I do not have to worry about singing my lungs out to call her and mark my territory like my other cuckoo family members as my voice is a gutteral one, which also help me to keep a low profile especially for those birders who would come to see me. —  WordPress.com News
  • But as duty rules in every direction, to God, to the State, Society, the Family, and ourselves, and as her voice is as authoritative at one time as at another, it follows that no one virtue can be said to be superior to any other. —  The Education of American Girls
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tone ·  sound ·  face ·  word ·  mind ·  manner ·  air ·  music ·  note ·  presence ·  figure ·  silence

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voice:   voices ·  voiced ·  voicing
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, from Old French vois, from Latin vōx, vōc-; see wekw- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly also voyce; from Middle English voice, woice, earlier vois, voys, voiz, voce, from Old French vois, voiz, vuiz, French voix = Provencal votz, voutz = Spanish Portuguese voz = Italian voce, from Latin vox, a voice, utterance, cry, call, a speech, saying, sentence, maxim, word, language, = Greek ε̄)πος (Νέπος), a word (see epos, epic), = Sanskrit vachas, speech. From the L. vox, or the verb vocare, call, are ult. English vocal, vowel, vocable, advocate, advowson, avocation, vouch, avouch, convoke, evoke, invoke, provoke, revoke, equivocal, univocal, vocation, vociferate, etc.
  2. from voice, n.
 

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