vocable
Example Sentences
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There is no such Saxon vocable as dare, to stare.
From Notes and Queries, Number 188, June 4, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various
"Well might Adam Littleton call this an heptastic vocable, rather than a word."
From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury
The word, which Littleton called "an heptastic vocable," comprehended the names of the seven Lord Mayors in whose mayoralties the Monument was begun, continued, and completed.
From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury
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
Sometimes he merely alters a letter or two; sometimes he twists off the head or the tail of the unfortunate vocable altogether.
From Spenser by R. W. (Richard William) Church
