Definition of Gutturalism

1. n. The quality of being guttural; as, the gutturalism of A [in the 16th cent.]

Definition of Gutturalism

1. Noun. The quality of being guttural. ¹

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Definition of Gutturalism

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gutturalism

gutting
guttings
guttle
guttled
guttler
guttlers
guttles
guttling
guttulous
guttural
guttural consonant
guttural duct
guttural pouch
guttural pulse
guttural rale
gutturalism (current term)
gutturalisms
gutturality
gutturalization
gutturalizations
gutturalize
gutturalized
gutturalizes
gutturalizing
gutturally
gutturalness
gutturals
gutturize
gutturized
gutturizes

Literary usage of Gutturalism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of the New World Called America by Edward John Payne (1899)
"... found in connexion with a predominant gutturalism—a marked characteristic of the Maya and Otomi languages. As for the Quichua, says Pacheco-Zegarra, ..."

2. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1892)
"... by laxity of discipline, inability of the Russian or Polish pedagogue to speak English, and the harsh gutturalism of his Hebrew or Jüdisch-Deutsch. ..."

3. The Comic History of England by Gilbert Abbott À Beckett (1894)
"... a dialect something between a sneeze, a snore, and a howl, spiced with a dash of gutturalism, and mixed together in a whine of surpassing mournfulness. ..."

4. The Comic History of England by Gilbert Abbott À Beckett, John Leech (1847)
"... a dialect something between a sneeze, a snore, and a howl, spiced with a dash of gutturalism, and mixed together in a whine of surpassing mournfulness. ..."

5. The philology of the English tongue by John Earle (1880)
"... and the movement was perhaps aided in some measure by the desire to reassert the languishing gutturalism of H and (we may add) of R. This was the means ..."

6. History of the New World Called America by Edward John Payne (1899)
"... found in connexion with a predominant gutturalism—a marked characteristic of the Maya and Otomi languages. As for the Quichua, says Pacheco-Zegarra, ..."

7. Goa, and the Blue Mountains, Or, Six Months of Sick Leave by Richard Francis Burton (1851)
"This We believe to be the cause of the Bedouin-like gutturalism, which distinguishes the Toda dialect. ..."

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