vocable

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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

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

From Somewhere in Red Gap by Wilson, Harry Leon

Accordingly, at length, the vocable Toronto is caught up by the white voyageurs, and adopted as a local proper name in the European sense: just as had been the case already with the word Canada.

From Toronto of Old by Scadding, Henry

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 Thornbury, Walter

It is known under the double vocable of Lyon et Vienne, and is the outgrowth of the more ancient ecclesiastical province of Vienne, whose archiepiscopal dignity was domiciled in St. Maurice.

From The Cathedrals of Southern France by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)