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Voicelessness

noun
1.
A disorder of the vocal organs that results in the loss of voice.  Synonym: aphonia.
2.
Speaking softly without vibration of the vocal cords.  Synonyms: susurration, whisper, whispering.
3.
Having no voice in the management or control of affairs.





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"Voicelessness" Quotes from Famous Books



... "herbe au chanteur." Up to the time of Louis XIV, it was considered an infallible remedy for loss of the voice. Racine writing to Boileau recommended the syrup of Erysimum to him when visiting the waters of Bourbonne in order to be cured of voicelessness. "Si les eaux de Bourbonne ne vous guerissent pas de votre extinction de voix, le sirop d'Erysimum vous guerirait infalliblement. Ne l'oubliez pas, et a l'occasion vingt grammes par litre d'eau en tisane ...
— Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure • William Thomas Fernie
... said of Cipriani de Lloseta that had he not been a Count he would have been a great musician. He had that singular facility with any instrument which is sometimes given to musical persons in recompense for voicelessness. The Count spoke like one who could sing, but his throat was delicate, and so the world lost a great singer. Of most instruments he spoke with a half-concealed contempt. But of the violin he said nothing. He was not a man to turn the conversational ...
— The Grey Lady • Henry Seton Merriman


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