voiceless

Definition

Lacking a voice, without vocal sound.

Etymology

From voice + -less.

Example Sentences

• "How people, with any pretence to decency or cleanliness, can, for a day, sit voiceless and patient and see these brutes destroy and befilth everything, public and private, is difficult to believe."
• "A voiceless song in an ageless light / Sings at the coming dawn / Birds in flight are calling there / Where the heart moves the stones / It's there that my heart is calling / All for the love of you."
• "I've come to see she is a voiceless person in her world, and so I try to remember to stop and give her my full-faced attention when I see her."

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