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

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)

D. Surgite: iam vendit pueris ientacula pistor, Cristataeque sonant undique lucis aves.

From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Luce, Edmund

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 Cody, Sherwin