vocable

Example Sentences

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

From Somewhere in Red Gap by Wilson, Harry Leon

The primitive vocable now conveyed a lively resentment, but there was the pleading of a patient sufferer in what followed.

From Somewhere in Red Gap by Wilson, Harry Leon

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 Locke, William John

Then the wrath of the old Inspector became vocable.

From The Red Acorn by McElroy, John

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