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

Ebhardt's suggestion that there are two significant parts in each foot-element, viz., sonant and pause, does not seem good.

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

In its weaving sonant patterns were the detonations of the primeval world he had left; and something strangely disquieting and feminine.

From Melomaniacs by Huneker, James

After enumerating some probable and reasonable annoyances, such as prudent owners would wish far removed from their bee gardens, he adds—    . . . “aut ubi concava pulsu Saxa sonant, vocisque offensa resultat imago.”

From The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2 by Morley, Henry

The sonant n appears in Brythonic as an, whereas in Goidelic the nasal disappears before k, t with compensatory lengthening of the vowel, e.g.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various