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adjective

Voiceless adj.

Having no voice, utterance, or vote; silent; mute; dumb. "I live and die unheard, With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword."

(Phon.) Not sounded with voice; as, a voiceless consonant; surd.

Voiceless stop (Phon.), a consonant made with no audible sound except in the transition to or from another sound; a surd mute, as p, t, k.

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Etymology of 'Voiceless'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Voiceless" Quotes from Famous Books

... this picture of the Pilgrims to Emmaus a typical instance of this? Pull the work to pieces; it ought to seem dull, monotonous, voiceless. As a composition it is utterly common: we see a sort of cellar of stone-work, a table facing us, behind which sits Jesus, His feet bare, His lips colourless, His complexion muddy, His raiment of a pinkish grey; He is breaking the bread, while, to His right, an apostle, clutching ...

— The Cathedral • Joris-Karl Huysmans

... with one reproachful look On him who bade her go, And scarcely could the patriarch brook That glance of voiceless wo: In vain her quivering lips essay'd His mercy to implore; Silent the mandate she obey'd, And then was ...

— Notable Women of Olden Time • Anonymous

... began to change towards me. The ease of our intercourse vanished. I felt she was learning to dislike me. I grinned, and capered, and scowled, and posed at her in a thousand ways, and knew—with what a voiceless agony!—that I did it all the time. I tried to resign again, and Barnaby talked about "X" and "Z" and "Y" in the New Review, and gave me a strong cigar to smoke, and so routed me. And then I walked up the Assyrian Gallery in the manner of Irving ...

— The Country of the Blind, And Other Stories • H. G. Wells

... and said I could not;—set you down, Your gray eyes wonder-filled beneath that crown Of bright hair gladdening me as you raced by. Another Father now, more strong than I, Has borne you voiceless to your dear ...

— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 1 (of 4) • Various

... promptly taken in the coils of that voiceless beauty whose speaking eye had met his so squarely. The mother had played him false, as she had Jethro—but with Peter these affairs ...

— The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

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