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Tintinnabulation

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tin⋅tin⋅nab⋅u⋅la⋅tion

  [tin-ti-nab-yuh-ley-shuhn]
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–noun
the ringing or sound of bells.
Origin:
1825–35, Americanism; < L tintinnābul(um) bell (see tintinnabular ) + -ation
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tin·tin·nab·u·la·tion   (tĭn'tĭ-nāb'yə-lā'shən)   
n.  The ringing or sounding of bells.

[From tintinnabulum.]
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tintinnabulation 
"the ringing of bells," 1831 (perhaps coined by Poe), from L. tintinnabulum "bell," from tintinnare "to ring, jingle" (reduplicated form of tinnire "to ring," from an imitative base) + instrumental suffix -bulum. Earlier forms in Eng. were tintinnabulary (1787), tintinnabulatory (1827), and tintinnabulum "small bell" (1398).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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