• Reboation

    Origin

    From Latin reboare; compare reboant.

    Full definition of reboation

    Noun

    reboation

    (plural reboations)
    1. 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.

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