Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Growing mute; wilfully mute; dumb.

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  • adjective Silent; unable or refusing to speak.

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Examples

  • The simple truth has to be told: how he loved his country, and for another and a broader love, growing out of his first passion, fought it; and being small by comparison, and finding no giant of the Philistines disposed to receive a stone in his fore-skull, pummelled the obmutescent mass, to the confusion of a conceivable epic.

    Beauchamp's Career — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868

  • Philistines disposed to receive a stone in his fore-skull, pummelled the obmutescent mass, to the confusion of a conceivable epic.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • a stone in his fore-skull, pummelled the obmutescent mass, to the confusion of a conceivable epic.

    Beauchamp's Career — Complete George Meredith 1868

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