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 — Complete by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
But no physiological or psychological explanation of consonance is given by this fact, for the simple reason that in the acoustic nerve-process nothing corresponding to the periodicity of the sonant stimulus is discoverable.
From Popular scientific lectures by Ernst Mach
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
We may say that the sonant consonant and its corresponding surd are the hard and soft forms of the same sound.
From The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric by Sherwin Cody
