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Sibilation   Listen
noun
Sibilation  n.  Utterance with a hissing sound; also, the sound itself; a hiss. "He, with a long, low sibilation, stared."






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"Sibilation" Quotes from Famous Books



... long low sibilation, stared As blank as death in marble; then exclaimed Averring it was clear against all rules For any man to go: but as his brain Began to mellow, 'If the king,' he said, 'Had given us letters, was he bound ...
— The Princess • Alfred Lord Tennyson

... strokes, they at the bottom of the tree repeatedly heard the same hissing sound they had taken for the sibilations of a snake, and which they might still have believed to be this, but for a hoarse croaking voice, mingling with the sibilation, which reached their ears at intervals, evidently proceeding ...
— The Castaways • Captain Mayne Reid



Words linked to "Sibilation" :   noise, pronunciation, hiss, hushing, assibilation, fizzle, sibilate, hissing



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