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sibilancies

sibilancies is the plural of sibilancy.

Meaning of sibilancy

Noun

sibilancy (usually uncountable, plural sibilancies)

  1. (usually) The property or state of being sibilant.
    • How do such words differ from hilltop, townend, candlelight, rushlight, cityman, and the like, where no double s can be made the scapegoat? Certainly Milton would not have avoided them for their sibilancy, he who wrote […] verses that hiss like Medusa's head in wrath.1876, James Russell Lowell, “Milton”, in Among My Books. Second Series., Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, page 280
    Synonyms:
    sibilance

Questions about sibilancies

What is sibilancies the plural of?
Sibilancies is the plural of sibilancy.

Words near sibilancies in the dictionary

  1. Sibi Division
  2. sibia
  3. sibias
  4. sibilance
  5. sibilances
  6. sibilancies
  7. sibilancy
  8. sibilant
  9. sibilant rhonchi
  10. sibilant rhonchus
  11. sibilantly

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