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Webster 1913 Edition


Singult

Sin′gult

,
Noun.
[L.
singultus
.]
A sigh or sobbing; also, a hiccough.
[Obs.]
Spenser.
W. Browne.

Webster 1828 Edition


Singult

SIN'GULT

,
Noun.
[L. singullus.] A sigh. [Not in use.]

Definition 2024


singult

singult

English

Noun

singult (plural singults)

  1. (obsolete) A sob.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.11:
      There an huge heape of singults did oppresse / His strugling soule […].
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