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Plangent

//ˈplænd͡ʒənt// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Having a loud, mournful sound.

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

  2. 2
    Beating, dashing, as waves. rare

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

Adjective
  1. 1
    loud and resounding wordnet

Etymology

From Latin plangēns, present participle of plangō (“I beat; I lament”).

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