rare. [f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality or character of being sonorous.
1727. Bailey (vol. II.), Sonorousness, Soundingness, Loudness.
1799. W. Taylor, in Robberds, Mem. (1843), I. 311. They do not often attain a certain majesty of Soundingness, which is frequent in the Latin hexameter.
1839. Darley, Beaum. & Fletcher’s Wks., I. Introd. P. xxxviii. To ensure music, lines must be full of sound, or soundingness.
