canorousness
English
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editcanorousness (uncountable)
- (dated) The quality of being musical; melodiousness.
- 1876, James Russell Lowell, “Spenser”, in Among My Books. Second Series., Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, page 184:
- He chooses his language for its rich canorousness rather than for intensity of meaning.
Further reading
edit- “canorousness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.