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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.