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ˈshrillness
[f. shrill a. + -ness.]
The quality or condition of being shrill.
1581G. Pettie tr. Guazzo's Civ. Conv. ii. (1586) 58 b, Those of Piemount, who with the shrilnesse of their wordes goe thorow ones eares. 1664H. More Myst. Iniq. 239 The shrilness and asperity of the noise they make. 1709Tatler No. 157 ⁋6 The Shrilness and Sharpness of the Sound. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. III. ii. vi, This shrillness getting ever shriller. 1856Kane Arctic Expl. I. vii. 69 ‘Twang, twang!’ came a second report. I knew it was the whale-line by the shrillness of the sing. 1903Morley Gladstone vi. v. II. 339 Cardwell adding with a certain shrillness that [etc.]. |