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- noun Plural form of
shrillness .
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Examples
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He plasters up his election-time shrillnesses not only on Fox's House of
The Art of Letters Robert Lynd 1914
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For at one moment the place seemed so humanly familiar, so distinctly my own proper envelope, that for love of it I could have laid my cheek against the wall; while in the next I was miserably conscious of strange new shrillnesses.
Famous Modern Ghost Stories Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev 1895
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