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sibilance

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.