What is "stridence"

Usage examples of "stridence".

He had a small childlike voice ordinarily, but rage caused it to lift and take on the stridence of a steamboat siren.

Many things were being offered for sale, the voices shouting in competitive stridence: there was the Dune Tarot with its booklets of commentaries imprinted on shigawire.

Her tone was gentle, no longer having the den-mother stridence it often had.

The silent stridence faded as he found the single door of escape, yawning, a merciful night without stars.

It seemed suddenly that he had turned to stone and through the stoniness rang a shrilling stridence of alarm bells in his brain.