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Alt. of Sibilancy

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  1. n. Alt. of Sibilancy
  2. 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.
  3. n. Alt. of Sibilancy