vocable

Example Sentences

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The vocable e is used to express strong emotion.

From The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai by Beckwith, Martha Warren

The philanthropic spectator suffers from no scarcity of words to express his particular attitude if he desires to do so; why then should he not leave socialists the enjoyment of their vocable?

From Contemporary Socialism by Rae, John

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

It will be a welcome relief if camouflage, as popular five years ago as fin-de-si�cle twenty-five years ago, shall follow that now unfashionable vocable into what an American president once described as 'innocuous desuetude'.

From Society for Pure English, Tract 05 The Englishing of French Words; the Dialectal Words in Blunden's Poems by Society for Pure English

The primitive vocable now conveyed a lively resentment, but there was the pleading of a patient sufferer in what followed.

From Somewhere in Red Gap by Wilson, Harry Leon