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
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
I. E. sonant r and l become ri, li.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
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
