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
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 Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
His hands moved quietly; his voice was clear and sonant; his words were few and polite.
From Life Immovable First Part by Aristides E. (Aristides Evangelus) Phoutrides
The terms sonant and surd are, in a scientific point of view, the least exceptionable.
From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
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 Hugo Münsterberg
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