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plangency

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plan·gent  (plnjnt)
adj.
1. Loud and resounding: plangent bells.
2. Expressing or suggesting sadness; plaintive: "From a doorway came the plangent sounds of a guitar" (Malcolm Lowry).
[Latin plangns, plangent-, present participle of plangere, to strike, lament; see plk-2 in Indo-European roots.]
plangen·cy n.
plangent·ly adv.
plangency
the condition or quality of producing a deep or loud sound. — plangent, adj.
See also: Sound
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Noun1.plangency - having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant
reverberance, sonority, sonorousness, vibrancy, ringing, resonance
timbre, tone, quality, timber - (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound); "the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely"; "the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet"
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In its context--one of the more affecting scenes of Agaat tending Milla--the song has a melancholy plangency to it, emphasised by the long vowels of the repeated aai.
Irreparable loss and exorbitant gain: on translating Agaat by Heyns, Michiel / Journal of Literary Studies
What could be more simple and declaratory, a statement of such high plangency and enormous claim that the reader assumes it must be not just an impression, or even a powerful opinion, but a "fact"?
The saddest story by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
Since she’s an allegro powerhouse, she’s more happily suited to Odile than to Odette, but she made a success of Martins’ Act IV, which invites agitation rather than plangency.
Three Debuts, One a Surprise, In Martins\'d5 Efficient Swan Lake by Robert Gottlieb / The New York Observer
 
 
 
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