plangent
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈplænd͡ʒənt/
plangent
- Having a loud, mournful sound.
- 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Story of a Lie, ch. 1:
- [S]how him a refined or powerful face, let him hear a plangent or a penetrating voice . . . and his mind was instantaneously awakened.
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth hardback edition, page 49:
- Since mid-day their plangent, disquieting cries had foretold its approach.
- 2013 Sept. 22, Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, "Music Review: A Middle East Mourned and Celebrated in Suites ↗," New York Times (retrieved 15 May 2014):
- In the lament about the massacre — the work’s second movement — he entered a more urgent register in the high reaches of the cello, but the sense of grief was more plangent than raw, devoid of any real outrage.
- 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Story of a Lie, ch. 1:
- (rare) Beating, dashing, as waves.
- 1922, Clark Ashton Smith, Desire of Vastness:
- What central sea with plume-plucked midnight strewn,
- Plangent to what enormous plenilune
- That lifts in silence, hinderless and stark?
- 1922, Clark Ashton Smith, Desire of Vastness:
- French: retentissant
- German: klagend
- Italian: risonante, fragoroso, lamentoso, sonoro, rumoroso
- Portuguese: plangente
- Russian: зауны́вный
- Spanish: plañidero, quejumbroso, triste, consternado
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