Crossword clues for sibilance
sibilance
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sibilance \Sib"i*lance\, Sibilancy \Sib"i*lan*cy\, n. 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.
Wiktionary
n. The quality of being sibilant: a hissing quality.
Usage examples of "sibilance".
Orr snickered with a slight, mucid sibilance and turned back to his work, squatting.
His voice, its guttural note alternating with a sibilance on certain words, betrayed no traces of agitation.
The snakelike sibilance Udo used in reply showed that he was not to be deterred from sound, at least.
There was a singing discernible on the line in the ensuing silence between them and, faintly, Nicholas could make out the inconstant sibilances of other voices, like ghosts', raised in argument.
From her lips came the same hideous soft sibilances, and Bran, though he had already known the grisly secret of her being, knew that never again could he touch her save with soul-shaken loathing.
Orr snickered with a slight, mucid sibilance and turned back to his work, squatting.