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Shrillness

noun

The quality of being sharp or harsh to the senses.

Having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound. Synonyms: stridence, stridency.

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"Shrillness" Quotes from Famous Books

... tuned my music to the trees, And there were voices, dim below Their shrillness, voices swelling slow In the blue murmur of hills, and a golden cry And then ...

— The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems • Aldous Huxley

... womanish in its shrillness, Smith sprang to his feet, all but upsetting the lamp in his violence. Unmixed horror was written upon ...

— 'Me-Smith' • Caroline Lockhart

... the road he was aroused from this profitable meditation by a shriek, the shrillness of which told him that it was a woman's. He looked up, and saw close to him, among the smouldering ruins of a farmhouse, two ruffians driving before them a young girl, with her hands tied behind her, while the ...

— Hypatia - or, New Foes with an Old Face • Charles Kingsley

... I am!" repeated Surface, bringing his twitching face nearer, his voice breaking to sudden shrillness. "Who do you think I am, ...

— Queed • Henry Sydnor Harrison

... the room the screaming "Monsieur l'Administrateur" of the frail, hairy Frenchman seemed to acquire a preternatural shrillness. The explorer of the Capitalist syndicate was still enthusiastic. "Ten million dollars' worth of copper practically in sight, Monsieur l'Administrateur. Ten millions in sight! And a railway coming—a railway! They will never believe my report. ...

— Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard • Joseph Conrad

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