Meanings
nounsingult (plural singults)
plural singults
- obsoleteA sob.
There an huge heape of singults did oppresse / His strugling soule […]
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC1 more example
So when her tears were stopp'd from either eye, / Her singults, blubberings, seem'd to make them fly
1613–1616, William Browne, “(please specify the page)”, in Britannia’s Pastorals. (please specify |book=1 or 2), London: […] George Norton
Origin
- Latinsingultus
- Englishsingult
From Latin singultus.
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