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Definition of Subtone
1. a low or subdued tone [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subtone
Literary usage of Subtone
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Christian Examiner (1856)
"... not inconsistent with a literal interpretation of his words, " My Father is
greater than I"; and that practically the subtone of religion is as heavy, ..."
2. The Methodist Quarterly Review by Methodist Episcopal Church (1859)
"... be found an individual to whom has happened some strange, unaccountable
supernaturalism, hushed up in silence, or only uttered in confidential subtone. ..."
3. The Methodist Review (1860)
"... that distinguished the essays of Thomas Paine ; frankness, individuality,
strong vernacular English, a vein of coarseness and a subtone of cold irony. ..."
4. Thomas Starr King, Patriot and Preacher by Charles William Wendte (1921)
"... except that now and then a subtone of tender thunder rolls in beneath the
rustle of birches, or a sudden rift in the foliage reveals the blazing blue of ..."
5. Thomas Starr King, Patriot and Preacher by Charles William Wendte (1921)
"... except that now and then a subtone of tender thunder rolls in beneath the
rustle of birches, or a sudden rift in the foliage reveals the blazing blue of ..."
6. Thomas Starr King, Patriot and Preacher by Charles William Wendte (1921)
"... except that now and then a subtone of tender thunder rolls in beneath the
rustle of birches, or a sudden rift in the foliage reveals the blazing blue of ..."
7. Yale Lectures on Preaching: And Other Writings by Nathaniel Judson Burton (1888)
"... what a drift and subtone of ante-messianic ages, what a summation of six
thousand mighty years, the years of God's slowly unfolding redemption, ..."
8. Reminiscences of Bishops and Archbishops by Henry Codman Potter (1906)
"In this point of view there is a subtone of pathos in the recollections, from
the pen of Bishop Nichols, which follow: " Bishop Williams's boyhood was spent ..."
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