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Definition of Sibilations
1. sibilation [n] - See also: sibilation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sibilations
Literary usage of Sibilations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sounds and Signs: A Criticism of the Alphabet, with Suggestions for Reform by Archer Wilde (1914)
"To return however to the proposal as to notation of the four sibilations in ass
as ash azure, it might reasonably be supposed that the change in function of ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1863)
"... or of short and long words in a sentence, or for the avoidance of disagreeable
sibilations and teeth-breaking knots of consonantal sounds. ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1887)
"The bronchitis was manifested by coarse and medium crepitations, continuous
rhonchi and sibilations, and severe cough, accompanied with an abundant ..."
4. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1905)
"An almost breathless silence reigns throughout the town, disturbed only by the
occasional sibilations of the devout multitude: all of which, accompanied by ..."
5. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1905)
"An almost breathless silence reigns throughout the town, disturbed only by the
occasional sibilations of the devout multitude: all of which, accompanied by ..."
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