voiceless

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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voiceless (ˈvɔɪslɪs)

—*adj*
1.	without a voice; mute
2.	not articulated: voiceless misery
3.	lacking a musical voice
4.	silent
5.	without the power or right to express an opinion
6.	phonetics articulated without accompanying vibration of the vocal cords: in English (p) is a voiceless consonant

'voicelessly

—*adv*

'voicelessness

—n

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Example sentences

Half the population was chattel or other property: invisible, enveloped, and

voiceless.

And knowing a voiced dental fricative from a voiceless aspirated alveolar stop

is so basic.

Thank-you for giving voice to the voiceless presence in the world for the

overlooked and form to our hunger a deep bow to you sir.

It would help put gender violence on the global agenda, and it would give a bit

of our voice to help the voiceless.

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Matching Quote

"We have heard all of our lives how, after the Civil War was over, the South went back to straighten itself out and make a living again. It was for many years a voiceless part of the government. The balance of power moved away from it—to the north and the east. The problems of the north and the east became the big problem of the country and nobody paid much attention to the economic unbalance the South had left as its only choice."

-Lyndon Baines Johnson