Muteness
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Muteness
Elopsdumb serpent; gives no warning of its approach. [Br. Lit.: Paradise Lost]
bald-headed, pugnosed and silent youngster of comic strip. [Comics: Sheridan, 200]
Kosinski novel about a foundling boy struck dumb by inhuman treatment. [Am. Lit.: Weiss, 345]
mute whose disability restricts his social contacts. [Am. Lit.: Carson McCullers The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter in Magill II, 416]