[f. as prec.] The fact or condition of being voiceless, in various senses.
1843. Blackw. Mag., LIV. 74/1. Silence, dreadful as if distilled from the voicelessness of the graves of a buried world!
1874. Ellis, E. E. Pronunc., III. 1126. To indicate voicelessness, prefix (‘) to a whispered, or (“) to a voiced letter.
1877. Fraser’s Mag., XV. 38. The utter voicelessness of the common people in any point when the Law or the Senate had spoken.
