Language; words; speech; expression; signification of feeling or opinion.

Opinion or choice expressed; judgment; a vote.

To vote; to elect; to appoint.

A term used to refer to an author’s pervasive “presence,” the determinate intelligence and moral sensibility that has selected, ordered, rendered and expressed what is read.

a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated; "the voice of the law"; "the Times is not the voice of New York"; "conservatism has many voices"

a presence that counts (politically, it's a vote)