unvoicedadj.

1859 R. W. Emerson Art & Crit. in Wks. (1903) XII. 298 A book holding so many memorable and heroic facts,..things unvoiced before.

1874 J. G. Holland Mistress of Manse i. 10 That word, ineffable to man,..Remains unvoiced since time began.

1881 W. E. Dickson Pract. Organ-building ix. 119 A wooden pipe, similarly put together but unvoiced.

1886 Mod. Lang. Notes 1 37/2 The change from unvoiced d to voiced d is assuredly a strengthening, due in such cases to assimilation.

1918 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 39 88 What we call in Jespersen's terminology ‘rill spirants’, namely unvoiced s, voiced z, and the sibilants in shall and azure.

1951 Italica 28 198 South Italian, for instance, spirantized the voiced plosive, but preserved geminates and unvoiced plosives.

1998 A. Dalby Dict. Langs. 68/2 Some sound changes recur in many Bantu languages, such as ‘Dahl's law’, in which k- is voiced if the next syllable begins with an unvoiced consonant.

1894 Harvard Stud. Classical Philol. 5 167 Its effect as a consonant was plainly noticeable only when a vowel immediately followed, so as to produce a contrast between unvoiced breath and voice.

1921 E. Sapir Lang. iii. 52 These may be also defined as free unvoiced breath with varying vocalic timbres.

1960 J. Carrell & W. R. Tiffany Phonetics ii. 27 An audible release of the voiced or unvoiced breath stream.

1990 N. Baker Room Temperature ix. 77 We had gotten into the habit of whispering..and I had been interested to notice that the unvoiced passage of air through the vocal chords actually tired them and dried them out more.