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 Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

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 image.

From The Natural History of Selborne by White, Gilbert

The terms sonant and surd are, in a scientific point of view, the least exceptionable.

From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

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