spirants's Usage Examples:

Where this happens there is much room for the display of tactical skill by the party managers in persuading delegates who favor one of the less prominent aspirants to transfer their votes to the person who seems most likely to unite the party.

th in thing), had down till about the middle of the 16th century the voiceless sound Is and the voiced sounddz respectively, and that in like manner tbe palatal spirants g, j, x, before assuming the uniform pronunciation of the guttural spirant (-Germ.

The Truth has been realized in the lives of so many spiritual aspirants since thousands of years.

The active ingredients in traditional antiperspirants generally include aluminum chloride or aluminum chlorohydrate, both of which may cause irritation.

It is admitted, not without reason, that the spirants c, 1, which at present represent but one interdental sound (a lisped s, or a sound between s and Eng.

It then proceeds to receive the nomination of various aspirants to the position of party candidate for the presidency.

A lesson of loyalty was thus impressed on aspirants to renown by the last objects which met their eyes as they passed from the sacred enclosure to the scene of their trial.

Baluch, the language of Baluchistan, also very closely akin to New Persian, but especially distinguished from it in that all the old spirants arc changed into explosives, e.

The study of the spirants, c, 1, 1; g, j is made a very delicate one by the circumstance that the interdental pronunciation of c, 1 on the one hand, and the guttural pronunciation of g, j on the other, are of comparatively recent date, and convey no notion of the value of these letters before the 17th century.

Apart from other evidence, the use of B with the value of v, of H as well as I with the value of i, of 43 with the value of f, and X with that of the Scotch ch, would be proof that the alphabet was not borrowed till long after the Greek classical period, for not till later did 0, 4,, x become spirants and n become identified with L.

Synonyms:

sibilant, fricative, soft, continuant, strident,

Antonyms:

softness, beseeching, euphonious, quiet, hard,