| 单词 |
plangent |
| 释义 |
plangent, a.|ˈplændʒənt|
[ad. L. plangent-em, pr. pple. of plang-ĕre to strike noisily, beat the breast, lament aloud. (Cf. plain v.)]
1. Making the noise of waves breaking or beating on the shore, etc.
1822G. Darley Errors of Ecstacie 26 The mighty deep, Shaking the firm strand with its plangent waves. 1858Farrar Eric xiii, The mingled scream of weltering tempest and plangent wave. 1880Swinburne Birthday Ode 256 With pulse of plangent water like a knell.
2. Loud-sounding, striking the ear powerfully; applied sometimes to a metallic, sometimes to a loud thrilling or plaintive sound. Also fig.
1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. iv. iii. (1872) I. 285 This rugged young King, with his plangent metallic voice. 1871Morley Crit. Misc., Byron 272 That universal protest which rings through Byron's work with a plangent resonance. 1888Howells Annie Kilburn xxv, The bell on the orthodox church called the members of Mr. Peck's society together..with the same plangent, lacerant note that summoned them to worship on Sundays. 1901Athenæum 8 June 720/2 How fine..the plangent union of accent and quantity throughout the line. 1928Kipling Limits & Renewals (1932) 14 The freshness, the fun, the humanity, the fragrance of it all, cries—no, shouts—itself as Dan's work. Why ‘Daiespringe mishandled’ alone stamps it from Dan's mint. Plangent as doom, my dear boy—plangent as doom! 1936[see facture 4]. |
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