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Tintinnabulation

//ˌtɪntɪnˌnæbjəˈleɪʃən// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A tinklingsound, as of a bell or of breaking glass. countable, uncountable

    "Across the darkling meadows, from the heights of Hare, the tintinnabulation sounded mournfully, penetrating the curl-wreathed tympanums of Lady Parvula de Panzoust."

  2. 2
    the sound of a bell ringing wordnet
  3. 3
    The ringing of bells. countable, uncountable

    "Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells — From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells."

Etymology

Noun of action from tintinnabulate, from Latin tintinnabulum (“a bell”), from tintinō, a reduplicated form of tinniō (“ring, jingle”).

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