vocable
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Since Steam’s 1969 hit and “Hey Jude” both employ a common non-lexical vocable, it follows that sports fans in their home countries have adopted each for their own purposes.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
The first church edifice on this site was consecrated in 606 by St. Virgil, under the vocable of St. Etienne.
From The Cathedrals of Southern France by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
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 William John Locke
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 Henry Scadding
The vocable e is used to express strong emotion.
From The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai by Martha Warren Beckwith
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