sonorousness

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The improvisational emphases and tonality mark the unmistakable voice of Scotland's most important living novelist – trilling with hilarity one moment, plummeting into mock sonorousness the next.

From The Guardian • Nov. 18, 2012

He gave it inflections, and distinguished its moods, and threw over it an air of system and coherency, and a certain goodly and far-reaching sonorousness.

From Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 3: Byron by Morley, John

The brilliant sonorousness and roundness of the timbre of the horn are due to the strength and predominance of the partial tones up to the 7th or 8th.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various

There is also a deliberation in the delivery—a sonorousness in the phraseology—that has something of a bygone day.

From Sketches in the House (1893) by O'Conner, T. P.

The timbre of the cornet lies somewhere between that of the horn and the trumpet, having the blaring, penetrating quality of the latter without its brilliant noble sonorousness.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various