Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or quality of being tunable; harmony; melodiousness. Also tuneableness.

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Examples

  • And the same ever honoured knight, with so musical an ear, had that veneration for the tunableness and chiming of verse, that he speaks of a poet as one that has “the reverend title of a rhymer.

    A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet 1909

  • Perhaps she was not very sage, and I am sure she was not of the caste of Vere de Vere, but she was pretty enough, and she had a voice of a bird-like tunableness, so that I would not have her out of the memory of that pleasant journey if I could.

    My First Visit to New England (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) William Dean Howells 1878

  • Perhaps she was not very sage, and I am sure she was not of the caste of Vere de Vere, but she was pretty enough, and she had a voice of a bird-like tunableness, so that I would not have her out of the memory of that pleasant journey if I could.

    Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship William Dean Howells 1878

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