SINGULTIENTADJ.
sobbing ...1660 rare ETYMOLOGY from ppl. stem of Latin singultire to sob FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1660 - see Example below EXAMPLE "...how som of ripe age will screech, cry, and howle in so many disordered notes, and singultient accents? From: The Parly of Beasts Or, Morphandra Queen of the Inchanted Iland By: James Howell, 1660 SOURCES • A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1887-1933 • The Century Dictionary and Encyclopedia, William Dwight Whitney, 1889-1891 • A Supplementary English Glossary, O. Davies, T. Lewis, 1881 • The Encyclopaedic Dictionary, Robert Hunter, 1879-1888
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