Reboation
Origin
From Latin reboare; compare reboant.
Full definition of reboation
Noun
reboation
(plural reboations)- A loud reverberation; the echo of a bellow or roar.
- 1874, The Yorkshire Magazine: A Monthly Literary Magazine, Volumes 3-4, page 560,...were deafened in the awe-inspiring roar of the torrent, the reboations of which we heard at some distance after we had left the spot whence they proceeded.
- 1937, The Atlantic, Volume 159, page 218,To an untrained ear the deep-mouthed reboation of a ship's horn seems to have lost itself in the fog,....
- 1965, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Albert G. Latham (translator), Ernest Rhys (editor), Faust: Parts I and II, page 249,Rustle we with rustle answer, thunder with our rolling thunder,
In a crashing reboation, threefold, tenfold multiplied.