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sibilance |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Sibilance \Sib"i*lance\, Sibilancy \Sib"i*lan*cy\, n. The quality or state of being sibilant; sibilation. Milton would not have avoided them for their sibilancy, he who wrote . . . verses that hiss like Medusa's head in wrath. --Lowell.