stentorian
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i adjective
very loud or powerful in sound: a stentorian voice.
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| —adj | |
| (of the voice, etc) uncommonly loud: stentorian tones | |
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Word Origin & History
stentorian
"of powerful voice," 1605, from Stentor, legendary Gk. herald in the Trojan War, whose voice (described in the "Iliad") was as loud as 50 men. His name is from Gk. stenein "groan, moan," from PIE imitative base *(s)ten-, source of O.E. þunor "thunder."
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Example sentences
There are those spasms of silence which are rather enervating, and then there are times when the voices are somewhat stentorian.
But that doesn't mean that there isn't a place for stentorian rhetoric.
Few were surprised when she began to wither beneath her husband's stentorian personality.
The stentorian snoring often provokes jokes, but sleep apnoea is a serious and sometimes fatal malady.
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