reboation
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin reboare; compare reboant.
Noun
[edit]reboation (plural reboations)
- A loud reverberation; the echo of a bellow or roar.
- 1874, The Yorkshire Magazine: A Monthly Literary Magazine, volumes 3-4, page 560:
- […] were deafened in the awe-inspiring roar of the torrent, the reboations of which we heard at some distance after we had left the spot whence they proceeded.
- 1937, The Atlantic, volume 159, page 218:
- To an untrained ear the deep-mouthed reboation of a ship's horn seems to have lost itself in the fog, […] .
- 1965, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Albert G. Latham, edited by Ernest Rhys, Faust: Parts I and II, page 249:
- Rustle we with rustle answer, thunder with our rolling thunder, / In a crashing reboation, threefold, tenfold multiplied.