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 vocable e is used to express strong emotion.
From The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai by Martha Warren Beckwith
So similar to the Maya vocable Kaan, a tie, a rope; hence a clan: a number of people held together by the tie of parentage.
From Vestiges of the Mayas or, Facts Tending to Prove that Communications and Intimate Relations Must Have Existed, in very Remote Times, Between the Inhabitants of Mayab and Those of Asia and Africa by Augustus Le Plongeon
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
We find ourselves before a Greek vocable reproduced in Tifinar.
From Atlantida by Pierre Benôit
