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Webster 1913 Edition
Sibilancy
{
Sib′i-lance
,Sib′i-lan-cy
, }Noun.
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.
Definition 2024
sibilancy
sibilancy
English
Noun
sibilancy (usually uncountable, plural sibilancies)
- the state or property of being sibilant
- Lowell
- Milton would not have avoided them for their sibilancy, he who wrote […] verses that hiss like Medusa's head in wrath.
- Lowell