unvoiced

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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From un- + voiced.

Then he went out of the castle into a starless night that was as quiet as an unvoiced menace. — The best short stories of 1919, and the yearbook of the American short story, Unknown
There in unvoiced oblivion sink thy name, And bid the sun, thine only visitant, Divulge not to the far-off world of men What once-famed wretch he there did espy hid. — Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold, Matthew Arnold
And yet the truth must have been that these apostles of the Commune were blinded by their own enthusiasm, deafened by the enthusiasm they evoked in others, to the fact that the great unvoiced majority who did not attend public meetings, who sat within their houses or kept silent in the shops, were not converted or affected by their teachings. — Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre, Voltairine De Cleyre

voiceless, surd, hard

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