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countable and uncountable, plural tympanies
The sound made by beating a drum. examples
(medicine) Tympanites (distention of the abdomen). examples
Inflation; conceit; bombast; turgidness. quotations examples
Thine's a tympany of sense.
1682, John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe
Dr. Johnson, for his triads and his antithetic balances, he taxes more than once with a plethoric and tautologic tympany of sentence
1828, Thomas De Quincey, “Elements of Rhetoric”, in Blackwood's Magazine