What's the difference between stentorian and stentorious?
Stentorian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a stentor; extremely loud; powerful; as, a stentorian voice; stentorian lungs.
Example Sentences:
(1) Led by the redoubtable Frances O'Grady, the TUC's stentorian No 2, a succession of union leaders and VIPs addressed the throng in time-honoured fashion.
(2) No doubt she would have been suitably scathing of the few less stentorian, more appeasing notes.
(3) Russell Crowe looks on stentorian form as the pre-flood patriarch, reeling from portents of the apocalypse and determined to protect his wife (Jennifer Connelly), his adopted daughter (Emma Watson) and the animals of the world.
(4) But I would prefer to sound like a regular adult human being, so I will just point out soberly that – as so many stentorian denunciations of word usage do – it lacks all historical and etymological justification.
(5) That stentorian gravitas has served Cheney well, but I don't believe it's an accurate reflection of his personality.
(6) Stentorian snoring and diurnal somnolence are the cardinal manifestations and should always lead to an examination during sleep.
(7) From Sinn Féin’s point of view, the stentorian attitude of Foster, refusing to stand aside, and the growing feeling among their own supporters that they have been weak and pushed around, has made it necessary for them to take a tough line.
(8) A stentorian American voice would utter the legend: “This election meets the highest standards of Scottish democratic excellence.” But the big Benjamins would assuredly accrue from the dodgier democracies such as Russia and China.
(9) Ludus played a fretful and subsequently jazz-inflected post-punk, their singer's playfully stentorian vocals (which Morrissey admired, and in part mimicked a few years later) describing vignettes charged with the sexual politics of the time and occasionally veering into ecstatic screeches.
(10) The best part was hitchhiking up to London for a night out (her brilliantly posh and stentorian voice meant that her lifts tended to keep their hands to themselves, fearing serious consequences if they didn't).
(11) We like the way the riff decelerates to a sludgy pace, and the booming, stentorian singing, which is of the Peter Murphy-announcing-that-Bela-Lugosi-is-dead school of portentous vocalese.
(12) Tuck got progressively drunker as the night went on, and Roberts dealt with it in a kind of disapproving stentorian way.