Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Emitting a clear ringing or tinkling sound.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Emitting a clear sound.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Having a ringing or clinking sound.

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Examples

  • A low, tremulous shudder was beginning to lift itself, like the distant growling of thunder, upon the tinnient air of the high summit.

    Empire Builders Francis Lynde 1893

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  • Obs. adj., ringing; resonant (adapt. of L. tinnient-em, pr. pple. of tinnīre to ring, tinkle)

    August 3, 2008