sibilance

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sibilance - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Sibilance \Sib"i*lance\, Sibilancy \Sib"i*lan*cy\, n.
     The quality or state of being sibilant; sibilation.
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           Milton would not have avoided them for their sibilancy,
           he who wrote . . . verses that hiss like Medusa's head
           in wrath.                                --Lowell.
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