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voicing, vbl. n.|ˈvɔɪsɪŋ|
[f. voice v.]
†1. The action, fact, or process of voting by voice; voting; election, nomination, or decision by vote. Obs.
1623Sanderson Serm. I. 94 We must confer our voices..upon those whom..we conceive to be the fittest; and the greater the place is..the greater ought our care in voycing to be. 1649Bp. Guthrie Mem. (1702) 119 It was not the Custom in Assemblies for any Man..to interrupt Voicing by Discourses; every one was to answer to the Question, Yea, or Nay, and no more. a1670Spalding Troub. Chas. I (Spalding Cl.) II. 292 It gois to voiceing, and, be pluralitie of voices, found, no man sould be raisit aganes the countrie.
2. The action or fact of uttering with the voice; the speaking or utterance of something; also, † mentioning, speaking about.
c1615Bacon Wks. (1879) I. 493/1 That the very voicing or suspect of the raising of the price of silver..would make..a deadness and retention of money. 1631Mabbe Celestina vi. 72 Being wounded with that golden shaft, which at the very voycing of your name, had struck her to the heart. 1657J. Watts Vind. Ch. Eng. 18 The one professeth by their due hearing, and the other by their due voicing (i.), Preaching the word of Faith. 1871Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue xii. 517 Poetry..makes great efforts to express..this finest part of the voicing of language. 1878Scribner's Mag. Oct. 896/1 When Bryant's sweet and solemn voicing of nature's meanings and life's mysteries will fail in their music to the ears of men.
3. a. Speech, vocal utterance; enunciation.
1822B. W. Procter Juan i, Be silent.., ye ministers Of death and darkness (for your voicing doth Bespeak ye terrible agents). 1860Emerson Cond. Life, Beauty Wks. (Bohn) II. 430 The clergy have bronchitis..Macready thought it came of the falsetto of their voicing.
b. With a and pl.
1849M. Arnold New Sirens 47 Till at evening we descry At a pause of Siren voicings These vext branches and this howling sky. 1873W. S. Mayo Never Again xi. 145 Expound me, then, these mystic voicings.
c. Expression or utterance. rare.
1888Advance (Chicago) 29 Nov. 772 How much of all that is best in our modern life had voicing and in some manner organic formulation in this little town.
4. a. Organ-building. The operation or process of obtaining the correct quality of tone in an organ-pipe or stop, or of obtaining the same tone in a series of these; the tone so obtained.
1840Penny Cycl. XVII. 2/1 The tone of the pipes..depending on what is technically called the voiceing. 1879Organ Voicing 28 The only difference in the voicing consists in keeping the mouth a trifle lower. 1889Stainer in Grove Dict. Mus. IV. 335/2 In testing the voicing of an organ-stop.
attrib.1879Organ Voicing 25 If..the voicing operations [are] cleanly and correctly done.
b. Jazz. The tonal quality of a group of musical instruments in an ensemble; a blend of instrumental sound; harmonization.
1946Mezzrow & Wolfe Really Blues ix. 152 We wrote..figuring out the right voicing by playing clarinet duets until it sounded good to us. 1949L. Feather Inside BeBop i. 6 He was a third horn, blending the guitar with the tenor and trumpet for three-part voicings that produced a sound new to jazz. 1958S. Race in P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz x. 127 A technique of voicing for one clarinet and four saxes. 1977Zigzag Mar. 5/1 What I do now is get a piano player who I really like and show him how the song was written, what kind of voicings, etc.
5. Phonetics. The action or process of producing or uttering with voice or sonancy; the change of a sound from unvoiced to voiced.
1874Ellis E.E. Pronunc. iii. 1113 In middle Germany, where the distinctions (p b, t d) are practically unknown,..recourse is had to what Brücke and M. Bell consider as whispering instead of voicing. 1959A. Campbell OE. Gram. ix. 180 The voicing of medial spirants was followed by the unvoicing of final spirants. |
