vocable
Example Sentences
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The vocable e is used to express strong emotion.
From The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai by Martha Warren Beckwith
And, though for Oxford men the savour of the name itself has long evaporated through its local connexion, many things show that for the Founder himself it was no empty vocable.
From Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story by Sir Max Beerbohm
The word, which Littleton called "an heptastic vocable," comprehended the names of the seven Lord Mayors in whose mayoralties the Monument was begun, continued, and completed.
From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury
We find ourselves before a Greek vocable reproduced in Tifinar.
From Atlantida by Pierre Benôit
Thus, ‘people’ is indeed ‘populus’, but it was ‘peuple’ first, while ‘popular’ is a direct transfer of a Latin vocable into our English glossary.
From English Past and Present by Abram Smythe Palmer
