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- rareuncountableThe quality of being stentorian.
‘If you are strong enough to take it, young man,’ she snarled in reply, her voice vibrant with unexpected stentorianness which startled her listener.
1974, Obi B[enue] Egbuna, Emperor of the Sea and Other Stories (Fontana African Novels), London: Fontana, →ISBN, page 1022 more examples
I still walk about Paris, and am as far as ever from knowing it. But the slow unfolding of the secret of this most jealous and beautiful of capitals is part of its charm. Its elusiveness, its painted age, its haggard or its lovely air at dawn, its wisdom, its paradoxes, its elegance and its drabness, its village-like calm, its circus-like stentorianness, […] are glittering facets of the same incomparable charm.
1936, George Slocombe, “Paris”, in The Tumult and the Shouting: The Memoirs of George Slocombe, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, section IV, page 55Так же с зычностью поднимали призрачный мир сановников: ― На прогу-у-улку! Внимание, часовые! В случае неповиновения – применять оружие! Всем, всем подниматься!
2019 [1986], Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by Marian Schwartz, chapter 227, in March 1917 (The Red Wheel; Node III), book 2, Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, →ISBN
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