Meaning of plangent | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Having a loud, mournful sound.
2. Beating, dashing, as waves.
   rare

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Examples

“[S]how him a refined or powerful face, let him hear a plangent or a penetrating voice […] and his mind was instantaneously awakened.”

“Since mid-day their plangent, disquieting cries had foretold its approach.”

“[…] who then marched together into eternal glory in plangent ceremonies.”

“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.”

“What central sea with plume-plucked midnight strewn, Plangent to what enormous plenilune That lifts in silence, hinderless and stark?”

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