voiceless
English
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- Lacking a voice, without vocal sound.
- 1890, Albert Kimsey Owen, Integral Co-operation at Work ... - Page 105:
- How people, with any pretence to decency or cleanliness, can, for a day, sit voiceless and patient and see these brutes destroy and befilth everything, public and private, is difficult to believe.
- 1994, Loreena McKennitt, The Mystic's Dream:
- A voiceless song in an ageless light / Sings at the coming dawn / Birds in flight are calling there / Where the heart moves the stones / It's there that my heart is calling / All for the love of you.
- (figurative) Without a vote; having no input into a decision.
- 2011, Jan Johnson, Living a Purpose-Full Life:
- I've come to see she is a voiceless person in her world, and so I try to remember to stop and give her my full-faced attention when I see her.
- (phonetics, of a consonant or vowel) Spoken without vibration of the vocal cords; unvoiced, surd, breathed. Examples: [t], [s], [f], [m̥], [u̥].
Translations
[edit]lacking a voice, without vocal sound
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phonetics, of a consonant: spoken without vibration of the vocal cords
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