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Synonyms for plangent

Grammar : Adj
Spell : plan-juh nt
Phonetic Transcription : ˈplæn dʒənt

Top 10 synonyms for plangent
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Définition of plangent

Origin :
  • "beating with a loud sound," 1822, from Latin plangentem (nominative plangens), present participle of plangere "to strike, beat" (see plague (n.)). Related: Plangently.
  • adj resonant
Example sentences :
  • Klyda gasped aloud at the horror of the plangent din, and she spun about to locate its cause.
  • Extract from : « Buff: A Collie and other dog-stories » by Albert Payson Terhune
  • And now, a solemn and plangent token of Oxford's perpetuity, the first stroke of Great Tom sounded.
  • Extract from : « Zuleika Dobson » by Max Beerbohm
  • It seemed as large as the shell of a cathedral, and for organ there was the plangent, echoing sound of sea waves.
  • Extract from : « The Air Pirate » by Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull
  • A song fours down from the skies, a plangent song of triumph from the Moon.
  • Extract from : « The Masque of the Elements » by Herman Scheffauer
  • Then from a point in the south came that warning, plangent cry of the evil bird.
  • Extract from : « The Keepers of the Trail » by Joseph A. Altsheler
  • That brisk April air seems somehow in key with the mood of the Avenue—hard, plangent, glittering, intensely material.
  • Extract from : « Pipefuls » by Christopher Morley
  • She was as far removed from the plangent reverie of Rousseau as from the savage truculence of Swift.
  • Extract from : « Critical Miscellanies (Vol 3 of 3) » by John Morley
  • The plangent roar of the city was painful to his ears, which had always been attuned to the deep silences of forest and lake.
  • Extract from : « Lad: A Dog » by Albert Payson Terhune
  • But I am not plangent—one must take the thick with the thin—and I have such possibilities of another and better sort before me.
  • Extract from : « The Letters of Henry James (volume I) » by Henry James
  • The plangent power and deep earnestness of the words were even more applicable now than then.
  • Extract from : « When It Was Dark » by Guy Thorne
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