Meaning of Keening | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Intense mournful wailing after a death, often at a funeral or wake.
   countable, uncountable
2. An unpleasant wailing sound.
   broadly, countable, uncountable

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Examples

“Keening. I remember keening that seemed to go on all through the night: shrill, sharp, shiny, needles of sound piercing cleanly and deeply to let the anguish in, not out.”

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