sonant

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Dr. Gutheil cautions that no accurate explanation is apt to be simple: more likely in Hinckley's mind was a dis sonant snarl of emotions and delusions, which in concert led him to Washington.

From Time Magazine Archive

Although the sonant is much longer when accented, the ratio between the sonant and the following interval is not definite.

From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Münsterberg, Hugo

Far to the right lay what had once been called /horresco referens/ the duckpond, where—"Dulce sonant tenui gutture carmen aves."

From My Novel — Volume 05 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Ecce in littera t aliqui ita pingue nescio quid sonant, ut cum dicunt etiam nihil de media syllaba infringant.

From The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it by Lord, Frances Ellen

It is a mute and labial, pronounced solely by the lips, and is distinguished from p by being sonant, that is, produced by the utterance of voice as distinguished from breath.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis by Various