vocable

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The vocable e is used to express strong emotion.

From The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai by Beckwith, Martha Warren

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

The first church edifice on this site was consecrated in 606 by St. Virgil, under the vocable of St. Etienne.

From The Cathedrals of Southern France by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)

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 Beerbohm, Max, Sir

But some, on the authority of good authors, make the parts only eight; as Aristarchus, and, in our day, Palæmon; who have included the vocable, or appellation, with the noun, as a species of it.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold