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plangent

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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.
plangent [plan-jent]
Adjective
(of sounds) mournful and resounding
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Adj.1.plangent - loud and resounding; "plangent bells"; "the plangent minority"
full - (of sound) having marked deepness and body; "full tones"; "a full voice"


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He despised small game and insignificant personalities, whether in the shape of dukes or bagmen, letting them go by like sea-weed; but show him a refined or powerful face, let him hear a plangent or a penetrating voice, fish for him with a living look in some one's eye, a passionate gesture, a meaning and ambiguous smile, and his mind was instantaneously awakened.
Tales and Fantasies by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
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