orthoepy

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There is nothing belonging to the stage which demands such strict discipline as its orthoepy, because there is 78 none in which it can so immediately and powerfully affect the public.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)

I had myself conceived the idea of presenting the words untrammeled with explanation of the orthoepy, or marks of accent; but the form was not decided upon.

From Every-Day Errors of Speech by Meredith, L. P.

Such departures from orthoepy are only to be checked by the power of such example; but this is a power not always present, or not always of sufficient strength. 

From Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Chambers, Robert

Hence the stage is looked up to as a great school, and the eminent actors are universally looked to as the best instructors in action, elocution, orthoepy, and the component parts of oratory.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)

One affords a quaint definition of the combination of orthoepy with orthography, for he would teach “how to write or paint the image of man’s voice like to the life or nature.”

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac