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
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
S has two sounds, soft, or surd, as in soft and this, and hard, or sonant, as in has and wise.
From Division of Words Rules for the Division of Words at the Ends of Lines, with Remarks on Spelling, Syllabication and Pronunciation by Frederick W. (Frederick William) Hamilton
I. E. sonant r and l become ri, li.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
In its weaving sonant patterns were the detonations of the primeval world he had left; and something strangely disquieting and feminine.
From Melomaniacs by James Huneker
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