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Definition of Canorousness
1. n. The quality of being musical.
Definition of Canorousness
1. Noun. The quality of being musical. ¹
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Definition of Canorousness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Canorousness
Literary usage of Canorousness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1901)
"He chooses his language for its rich canorousness rather than for intensity of
meaning. To characterize his style in a single word, I should call it costly. ..."
2. Orations from Homer to William McKinley by Mayo Williamson Hazeltine (1902)
"... about his business, spring from a secret persuasion of their more noble harmony,
their more ear-bewitching canorousness ? And yet he no doubt recited ..."
3. The Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell (1892)
"... about his business, spring from a secret persuasion of their more noble harmony,
their more ear-bewitching canorousness ? And yet he no doubt recited ..."
4. Philosophy of Rhetoric: By John Bascom by John Bascom (1882)
"23. lie chooses his language for its canorousness.— [Lowell.] 24. . . .
whose tendency it certainly is to become languorous.—[Lowell.] 25. ..."
5. Literary and Political Addresses by James Russell Lowell (1904)
"... ear- bewitching canorousness ? And yet he no doubt recited those verses in a
fashion which would have disqualified them as barbarously for the ear of an ..."
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