misvoice
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Law is but the voice; government itself only the body; civilization is the essence, the spirit—the spirit of ages of progress and conquest from rude nature and ruder men—a spirit sometimes, alas! misvoiced; sometimes misembodied."
- "That statement was received with applause, and the hon. gentleman, addressing himself to the hon. member for Selkirk, said: 'the hon. gentleman will see from these manifestations of opinion that I have not misvoiced the views of the hon. gentlemen who sit around me.'"
- "My reading for this chapter confirmed that the Muslim woman was misvoiced or un-voiced in almost all discrourses surrounding her life. While the authenticity of various voices remains problematic, it was clear to me that she needed to and could voice herself."
- "Ackroyd's solicitude for Eliot here seems to me punctilious and, though not misplaced, misvoiced: 'For a man who was peculiarly attentive to the manners and to the formal courtesies of "society", the behaviour of a deranged wife would inevitably lead to anxiety and a sense of shame not far from panic.'"