Synonyms:
articulation
Meaning: the aspect of pronunciation that involves bringing articulatory organs together so as to shape the sounds of speech
Usage examples
His lips moved,--in painful articulation.
To savages generally is imputed a guttural articulation.
"I once knew a man like you, Lucifer," he said, with a maddening monotony and slowness of articulation.
Once I found another rabbit torn to pieces,--by the Hyena-swine, I am assured,--but that was all. It was about May when I first distinctly perceived a growing difference in their speech and carriage, a growing coarseness of articulation, a growing disinclination to talk.
"Can you," said Marston, with the same slow and stern articulation, and after a considerable pause--"can you prevent the malady you profess to cure?--can you meet and defeat the enemy halfway?--can you scare away the spirit of madness before it takes actual possession, and while it is still only hovering about its threatened victim?"