plangent

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   loud and resounding

   Plangent bells.

2. 2
   adj

   Beating, dashing, as waves.

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

Simplified etymology

Plangent, recorded from the mid-17th century, derives from Latin plangere, “to beat” or “lament.”

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

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