Meaning of dulcisonant | Babel Free

Definitions

Sweetly sounding.

literary, rare

Examples

“Dulciſonant (dulciſonus) that ſounds ſweetly.”

“Soft Eccho’s ore the Wall did oft deſcend / Of Harmony, and all around diſtend / Dulciſonant, with Cloſes raviſhing, / Which perfum’d Blaſts of Æthur hither bring⟳.”

“They breathe⟳ the most liquid spirits, and dart forth those visual rays, which may be called the arrows of love⟳, as they so forcibly penetrate the heart with the most dulcisonant harmony, affect⟳ the imagination, and link⟳ one another in an imperceptible love-knot.”

“Your words are as gracious, and your voice as dulcisonant as an angel’s;”

“A voice as dulcisonant as that of Hebe or the tones which flowed from the lute of Apollo fell upon his ears.”

“Long ere the last⟳ modulation had died from the lips of the songstress, / That soft dulcisonant queen, most honour’d by men in the wond’ring, / Amaranth lov’d Basilissa;”

“Blue-pinioned swallows soar on graceful wing; / Their odes dulcisonant, delight to sing⟳.”

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