vocable

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"Well might Adam Littleton call this an heptastic vocable, rather than a word."

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter

Often I had wished to test in speech the widely alleged merits of this vocable.

From Somewhere in Red Gap by Wilson, Harry Leon

Nothing human was alien to him, nor inhuman, for he rejected as quite meaningless the latter vocable, as he rejected such clichés as "organic and inorganic."

From Unicorns by Huneker, James

In Chapter XVIII, "the seequipedalian Hellenic vocable" was changed to "the sesquipedalian Hellenic vocable".

From A Cadet's Honor Mark Mallory's Heroism by Sinclair, Upton

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 Palmer, Abram Smythe