Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A keeping silence; loss of speech; dumbness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A becoming dumb; loss of speech.
- noun A keeping silent or mute.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Silence ; inability or refusal to speak.
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Examples
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Words Microsoft Word squirms at: Well, just obmutescence.
I need you so much closer pabba 2008
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Therefore, I was manna in the desert of Jud's obmutescence.
Heart of the West [Annotated] O. Henry 1886
whichbe commented on the word obmutescence
1. Becoming dumb; loss of speech.
2. Keeping silent or mute.
May 13, 2008
qms commented on the word obmutescence
Be quicker to pray than to preach,
More eager to learn than to teach;
For wisdom’s true essence
Can be obmutescence
And silence be deeper than speech.
December 21, 2017