Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The character of being strident.

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  • noun the quality of being strident

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  • noun having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound

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Examples

  • We should be confident in our beliefs, and willing to proclaim and defend our faith ... but, I'm not sure muslim "stridence" is what we should be aiming for.

    Latest Articles U.K. 2010

  • Instead, candidates plowed other lines of attack with newfound stridence.

    GOP Race Intensifies Patrick O'Connor 2012

  • HARRIS: To some degree the stridence of my writing is an effort to get people's attention.

    The God Debate 2007

  • But I can honestly defend the stridence because I think our situation is that urgent.

    The God Debate 2007

  • Right I turned, out of the stridence of the main street, into a small, very small, lessening of the clamor, with a fraction less light, and perhaps one or two breaths now and then of real air.

    Uncharted Stars Norton, Andre 1969

  • As he read, we heard the joyous stridence of an accordion in a hula harmony.

    Mystic Isles of the South Seas. Frederick O'Brien 1900

  • The easterly wind brought them the roar streaked with stridence of the artillery duel in progress on the nearest sector of the Front.

    The Rough Road William John Locke 1896

  • That's a disappointment, given the ease of the short six-hour campaign -- seven, perhaps, if you prefer silence to stridence -- and how well previous Splinter Cell games made your various hi-tech tools seem so indispensable.

    GameSpot's News, Screenshots, Movies, Reviews, Previews, Downloads, and Features 2010

  • That's a disappointment, given the ease of the short six-hour campaign -- seven, perhaps, if you prefer silence to stridence -- and how well previous Splinter Cell games made your various hi-tech tools seem so indispensable.

    GameSpot's News, Screenshots, Movies, Reviews, Previews, Downloads, and Features 2010

  • That's a disappointment, given the ease of the short six-hour campaign -- seven, perhaps, if you prefer silence to stridence -- and how well previous Splinter Cell games made your various hi-tech tools seem so indispensable.

    GameSpot's News, Screenshots, Movies, Reviews, Previews, Downloads, and Features 2010

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