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Definition of Devocalized
1. devocalize [v] - See also: devocalize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Devocalized
Literary usage of Devocalized
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1874)
"(still preserved, though the sound has been devocalized, in Modern German), and
the Dutch pronunciation. In the Transition period the voiced / was ..."
2. An Anglo-Saxon Primer: With Grammar, Notes, and Glossary by Henry Sweet (1900)
"... hr differed from i, n, r respectively precisely as wh differs from w, that
is, they were these consonants devocalized, hi being nearly the same as Welsh ..."
3. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1881)
"Dutch g, especially when initial, seems to be often more or less devocalized.
/ is ox. 153. For Swedish see my Spoken ..."
4. King Alfred's West-Saxon Version of Gregory's Pastoral Care by Gregory, Alfred, Henry Sweet (1871)
"... with the final d devocalized, as in sint for sind. These forms, which are
almost universal in some of the oldest MSS. and are probably the originals of ..."
5. A History of English Sounds from the Earliest Period: With Full Word-lists by Henry Sweet (1888)
"When devocalized these vowels cannot be separated from o and o. The following
are the most important of the relations between individual consonants and ..."
6. A Primer of Phonetics by Henry Sweet (1892)
"Final z may also be fully vocalized throughout, or else gradually devocalized,
passing from voice to whisper while the consonant position is still being ..."
7. A Bibliographical List of the Works that Have Been Published, Or are Known by Walter William Skeat, John Howard Nodal, William Hugh Patterson (1877)
"... was originally vocal (=gh), although it was soon devocalized. In the Transition
period all medial and final ^s became open ), as in German, Danish, ..."
8. A History of English Sounds from the Earliest Period, Including an by Henry Sweet (1879)
"... although it was soon devocalized. In the Transition period all medial and
final gs became open (gh~), as in German, Danish, and Icelandic. ..."
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