"microphonous" meaning in All languages combined

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          "text": "Innumerable degrees of crime, but a whisper in the era of Kent and Blackstone, are now of microphonous volume in strenuousness, and as common as the asphyxial conditions which create it.",
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          "text": "The Meteor was a microphonous ear which caught every whisper of the world, and a megaphonic mouth which could trumpet its news to eager millions, or shut itself up as close as a Bank of England vault.",
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          "ref": "1937 July 11, “Radio Voice at Queen Mary Hospital”, in Hong Kong Sunday Herald, volume XII, number 697, page 4:",
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