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Cacophony   Listen
noun
Cacophony  n.  (pl. cacophonies)  
1.
(Rhet.) An uncouth or disagreable sound of words, owing to the concurrence of harsh letters or syllables. "Cacophonies of all kinds."
2.
(Mus.) A combination of discordant sounds.
3.
(Med.) An unhealthy state of the voice.





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"Cacophony" Quotes from Famous Books



... struck by a performance of Shakespeare's "Othello," in which the hero was played by a black actor from the West Indies (Ira Aldridge?), who spoke in English, while all the other characters delivered their speeches in Russian. The result was a curious cacophony. She thought the Othello good, nay, very good, for, she observes, "On returning from China one is not very ...
— Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century • W. H. Davenport Adams
... their spinning, the threads of Italian politics at the culmination of the papal imperial conflict; and that breast throbbing with the fiery passions of republican Italy, while behind the throb beat the measure of a poetic soul impelled to tune the wide, variegated cacophony. Proud, passionate, and baffled, the man Dante deeply swayed the poet. Much of his verse is directly woven out of his indignations and burning personal griefs. At times, ...
— Essays AEsthetical • George Calvert


Words linked to "Cacophony" :   cacophonic, blaring, noise, blare, cacophonous


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