euphony
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Finally, our group out here settled on Federalist Society as a name, which I suppose makes up in euphony what it lacks in accuracy.
From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2021
Listen to how the music unfolds: passages that slyly verge on atonality are linked like gossamer chains to hinge moments of pure tonal euphony, each expressing a clear dramatic point.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 28, 2019
He was richly alive to cadence and euphony.
From Economist ● May 23, 2018
Peele is one of those Elizabethan writers whose verse has a grace and euphony that bring the spoken word uncannily close to the condition of music.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 11, 2010
Let the Angel of Light come to her with his necessary angelic qualities, and no want of euphony in a sound should be a barrier to him.
From Ayala's Angel by Anthony Trollope
But to Meredith the euphonies of France were not strange.
From The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age by Albert Bigelow Paine
The souls from different parts of the earth recognize each other and converse in human language, but, unless practiced, it is forgotten and our euphonies take its place.
From The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars by L. P. Gratacap
And the city?—Oh, my dear, my dear, I never expected to encounter anything so much out of key with the essential euphonies.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) by Marshall Pinckney Wilder
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