Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Sonorous character or quality: as, the sonorousness of metals, of a voice, of style, etc.

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  • noun Sonority.

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  • noun having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant

Etymologies

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sonorous +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • The men indeed pride themselves upon speaking it with elegance, impressing upon it a masculine sonorousness, which is peculiarly adapted to the energetic movements of manly eloquence, formerly so much cultivated in Poland.

    Life of Chopin Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886 1877

  • The men indeed pride themselves upon speaking it with elegance, impressing upon it a masculine sonorousness, which is peculiarly adapted to the energetic movements of manly eloquence, formerly so much cultivated in Poland.

    Life of Chopin Franz Liszt 1848

  • Romorantin or at Montbrison, and which today, having become classic, is no longer spoken except by the official orators of magistracy, to whom it is suited on account of its grave sonorousness and its majestic stride; a tongue in which a husband is called a consort, and a woman a spouse;

    Les Miserables 2008

  • It takes years of training in legislative mores, and especially seasoning in the Senate's habits of unlimited debate and its belief that self-congratulatory sonorousness is eloquence, to produce a person as inarticulate as Bob Dole.

    Handicapped On The Hill 2007

  • This is very fine, and Sutherland is not stretching too far in comparing it, with its "mortuary sonorousness," to Donne's "Holy Sonnets."

    A Nice Bloody Fool 2005

  • This is very fine, and Sutherland is not stretching too far in comparing it, with its "mortuary sonorousness," to Donne's "Holy Sonnets."

    A Nice Bloody Fool 2005

  • The ladies praised his voice and the music, but were more struck with the softness and sonorousness of the Russian language and asked for a translation of the text.

    The Torrents of Spring 2006

  • The thunder was re - echoed among the rocks with a grand sonorousness.

    The Mysterious Island 2005

  • On arriving at the end of one of these gloomy caverns, extending several hundred feet into the interior of the mountain, he was surprised to hear a deep rumbling noise, increased in intensity by the sonorousness of the rocks.

    The Mysterious Island 2005

  • The thunder was re - echoed among the rocks with a grand sonorousness.

    The Mysterious Island 2005

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