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SMALL VOICE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does small voice mean?
• SMALL VOICE (noun)
The noun SMALL VOICE has 1 sense:
1. an inner voice that judges your behavior
Familiarity information: SMALL VOICE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An inner voice that judges your behavior
Classified under:
Nouns denoting goals
Synonyms:
small voice; voice of conscience; wee small voice
Hypernyms ("small voice" is a kind of...):
conscience; moral sense; scruples; sense of right and wrong (motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions)
Context examples
Nor can I quite close my ears to a small voice of pride which tells me I did not do so badly, all things considered.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Strong wind, earthquake-shock, and fire may pass by: but I shall follow the guiding of that still small voice which interprets the dictates of conscience.'
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
By spending time alone, you will hear the small voice within and become your own best friend.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
If little Mowcher (who had no hand, young gentleman, in the making of herself) addressed herself to him, or the like of him, because of her misfortunes, when do you suppose her small voice would have been heard?
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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