Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Destitute of voice; voiceless.
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- adjective Without a
voice ;voiceless ;aphonic .
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Examples
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X----, at Belfort, cannot talk for more than ten minutes or a quarter of an hour without becoming completely aphonous.
Maîtrise de soi-même par l'autosuggestion consciente. English Emile Cou�� 1891
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He comes back on the appointed day, and tells me that the day before he was able to converse the whole afternoon without becoming aphonous.
Maîtrise de soi-même par l'autosuggestion consciente. English Emile Cou�� 1891
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To feel the full glory of the sun, the joy of the Western wind, to hear the aphonous whisperings of the flowers, to be fancifully cognisant of "the music of the spheres"; better this with only a garret for your environment, than to be a wealthy Peter Bell in a palace, or a lord of many acres who sees nothing beyond its intrinsic value in a Turner, and finds Shelley poor stuff and Tennyson only a rhymster.
The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various
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