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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