voicingn.

1618 in T. Thomson Acts & Proc. Kirk of Scotl. (1845) III. lii. p. liii In all lawfull Assemblies, the voicing should be free.

1627 R. Sanderson Ten Serm. 184 We must conferre our voyces..vpon those, whom..we conceiue to bee the fittest: and the greater the place is..the greater ought our care in voycing to bee.

a1676 H. Guthry 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.

1709 W. Steuart Coll. & Observ. Church Scotl. i. xi. 51 Where there are two or more Ministers in one Congregation, that they have Equal Power in Voicing, that one of them hinder not the Reasoning or Voicing of any thing, being agreeable to the Acts and Practice of the Kirk.

?1792 A. Stewart Papers Referred to in Pleadings for Gen. Stewart 20 Some of the heritors of the said stewartry, did remove themselves without voycing in the election.

a1626 F. Bacon Lett. & Remains (1734) 380 That the very voycing or suspect of the raysing of the price of silver..would make..a deadness and retention of money.

1631 J. Mabbe tr. F. de Rojas Spanish Bawd vi. 72 Being wounded with that golden shaft, which at the very voycing of your name, had struck her to the heart.

1657 J. Watts Scribe, Pharisee 18 The one professeth by their due hearing, and the other by their due voicing, Preaching the word of Faith.

1871 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue xii. 517 Poetry..makes great efforts to express this finest part of the voicing of language.

1878 Scribner's Monthly 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.

1931 E. Blunden in W. Owen Poems 28 Having discovered and practised this para-rhyme, Owen became aware that it would serve him infinitely in the voicing of emotion and imagination.

1998 Guardian (Nexis) 26 Feb. 12 The books too demand a voicing... In speech, the overaccentuated pauses are endearing, but on the page the commas and modifying clauses can be infuriating.

1821 Times 29 Dec. 4/4 (advt.) A very large and valuable Church Organ..a voicing machine, a quantity of pipes, and pipe metal, work benches, tools, household furniture, and other effects.

1834 New-Eng. Mag. Jan. 41 It is upon the art of voicing, that the fine tone of an organ entirely depends; and it is this which makes the principal difference between a good organ and a bad one.

1879 Organ Voicing 28 The only difference in the voicing consists in keeping the mouth a trifle lower.

1953 R. Kirkpatrick Domenico Scarlatti ix. 182 The notation of Sonata 1..can be taken seriously only when the voicing of the harpsichord used permits a satisfactory sonority.

1976 A. A. Reblitz Piano Servicing, Tuning, & Rebuilding 81 Voicing for each loudness requires needling a different part of the hammer.

2001 C. H. Wendel Encycl. Antique Tools & Machinery 146/2 The same tool is used after the pipes have been made and sent to the voicing room, long before the organ is set up in its final location.

1854 W. Barnes Philol. Gram. 277 A breath sound of one voicing and one clipping, as on.

1874 A. J. Ellis On Early Eng. Pronunc. IV. 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.

1907 Trans. & Proc. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 38 26 Un voicing of these letters and the voicing of t and p..cannot both be true consonant shifts.

1959 A. Campbell Old Eng. Gram. ix. 180 The voicing of medial spirants was followed by the unvoicing of final spirants.

1999 TESOL Q. 33 (advt.) Spectograms..can be used to show students acoustic patterns of consonant productions such as voice onset times, voicing vs. unvoicing, [etc.].