dissonantal, a.
(ˌdɪsəˈnæntəl)
[f. L. dissonāntia dissonance + -al.]
= dissonant a.; employing or characterized by dissonance.
| 1946 R. Blesh Shining Trumpets (1949) i. 8 The ultra⁓modern polyphonal and dissonantal school of today. 1948 E. Sitwell Notebk. on Shakes. v. 29 The rocking up and down of the dissonantal o's (‘Crowne’, ‘Toe’, ‘top’). 1951 Eng. Studies XXXII. 68 Alliterative assonance—sometimes called para-rhyme, or dissonantal rhyme—is of course not unknown in English poetry before the twentieth century. |