undervoice
/ˈʌndə(ɹ)ˌvɔɪs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Her sensations were indefinable, and so were they a few minutes afterwards upon hearing Henry Crawford, who had a chair between herself and Tom, ask the latter in an under voice whether there were any plan for resuming the play after the present happy interruption […]"
- "Brayder introduced them to one or two of the men, hastily and in rather an undervoice, as a thing to get over."
- "A thousand soft undervoices that jumped my jangled senses from his last, weakly syllabled wind to a mosaic of voices within voices, each one immanent in the other, none his but all strangely his […]"
- "Through the battered century of world wars and massive violence by other means, there had always been an undervoice that spoke through the cannon fire and ack-ack and that sometimes grew strong enough to merge with the battle sounds. It was the struggle between the state and secret groups of insurgents, state-born, wild-eyed—the anarchists, terrorists, assassins and revolutionaries who tried to bring about apocalyptic change."
- "[…] Your mother Played Prospero, flying her magic in To stage the Masque, and bless the marriage, Eavesdropping on the undervoices Of the honeymooners in Paris […]"
- "Consequently, the danger for Dutch learners of English is undervoicing the English lenis fricatives rather than the reverse."