tintinnabulation

Noun of action from tintinnabulate, from Latin tintinnabulum (“a bell”), from tintinō, a reduplicated form of tinniō (“ring, jingle”).

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌtɪntɪnˌnæbjəˈleʃən/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌtɪntɪnˌnæbjuːˈleʃən/

tintinnabulation (countable and uncountable, plural tintinnabulations)

1. A tinkling sound, as of a bell or of breaking glass.
   • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 20

     Across the darkling meadows, from the heights of Hare, the tintinnabulation sounded mournfully, penetrating the curl-wreathed tympanums of Lady Parvula de Panzoust.

2. The ringing of bells.
   • 1849, Edgar Allan Poe, The Bells

     Keeping time, time, time,

     In a sort of Runic rhyme,

     To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells

     From the bells, bells, bells, bells,

     Bells, bells, bells —

     From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.

• tintinnabulate