vocable

Example Sentences

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There is no such Saxon vocable as dare, to stare.

From Notes and Queries, Number 188, June 4, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

The vocable e is used to express strong emotion.

From The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai by Beckwith, Martha Warren

But the Maya vocable Thallac, signifies a thing without steadiness, like the sea.

From Vestiges of the Mayas or, Facts Tending to Prove that Communications and Intimate Relations Must Have Existed, in very Remote Times, Between the Inhabitants of Mayab and Those of Asia and Africa by Le Plongeon, Augustus

He would have analyzed this particular one with a minute delicacy beyond the powers of Clem Sypher through whose head rang the echo of the irritating vocable for some time afterwards.

From Septimus by Locke, William John

Suppose I have an idea to which I give utterance by the vocable 'skrkl,' claiming at the same time that it is true.

From Meaning of Truth by James, William