Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being tunable; harmony; melodiousness. Also
tuneableness .
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Examples
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And the same ever honoured knight, with so musical an ear, had that veneration for the tunableness and chiming of verse, that he speaks of a poet as one that has the reverend title of a rhymer.
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Perhaps she was not very sage, and I am sure she was not of the caste of Vere de Vere, but she was pretty enough, and she had a voice of a bird-like tunableness, so that I would not have her out of the memory of that pleasant journey if I could.
My First Visit to New England (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) William Dean Howells 1878
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Perhaps she was not very sage, and I am sure she was not of the caste of Vere de Vere, but she was pretty enough, and she had a voice of a bird-like tunableness, so that I would not have her out of the memory of that pleasant journey if I could.
Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship William Dean Howells 1878
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