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Webster 1913 Edition

Sibilation

Sibˊi-la′tion

,

Noun.

[L.

sibilatio

.]

Utterance with a hissing sound; also, the sound itself; a hiss.

He, with a long, low

sibilation

, stared.

Tennyson.

Webster 1828 Edition

Sibilation

SIBILA'TION

,

Noun.

A hissing sound.

Definition 2025

sibilation

sibilation

English

Noun

sibilation ‎(plural sibilations)

A hissing sound.
- 1962, Sir Monier Monier-Williams, A practical grammar of the Sanskrit language, page 18:
  The exact labial sibilation denoted by f, and the soft sibilation z are unknown in Sanskrit.
From the shadows emanated a hushed sibilation.

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