Voiceless
['vɒɪslɪs] or ['vɔɪsləs]
Definition
(a.) Having no voice, utterance, or vote; silent; mute; dumb.
(a.) Not sounded with voice; as, a voiceless consonant; surd.
Typed by Benjamin
Examples
- They have been tamed--but at a price, the price of throwing the burthen of taxation upon the voiceless mass of the common people. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Hitherto they had been voiceless, wordless, needing all their breath for their hard-labouring efforts to break down the gates. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Voiceless and viewless, stirless and wordless, he kept his station behind the pile of flowers. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It has engendered a fine concern about average people, about the voiceless multitudes who have been left to pass unnoticed. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Was it you, the voiceless and the dead? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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