Meaning of undervoice | Babel Free

Definitions

A low or quiet voice.

Examples

“Her sensations were indefinable, and so were they a few minutes afterwards upon hearing Henry Crawford, who had a chair between herself and Tom, ask the latter in an under voice whether there were any plan for resuming the play after the present happy interruption […]”

“Brayder introduced them to one or two of the men, hastily and in rather an undervoice, as a thing to get over.”

“A thousand soft undervoices that jumped my jangled senses from his last, weakly syllabled wind to a mosaic of voices within voices, each one immanent in the other, none his but all strangely his […]”

“Through the battered century of world wars and massive violence by other means, there had always been an undervoice that spoke through the cannon fire and ack-ack and that sometimes grew strong enough to merge with the battle sounds. It was the struggle between the state and secret groups of insurgents, state-born, wild-eyed—the anarchists, terrorists, assassins and revolutionaries who tried to bring about apocalyptic change.”

“[…] Your mother Played Prospero, flying her magic in To stage the Masque, and bless the marriage, Eavesdropping on the undervoices Of the honeymooners in Paris […]”

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