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plangent (PLAN-juhnt) - adj., resounding, esp. with a plaintive sound.
As a bell -- resonant and mournful together. A song of long-lost love can also be plangent. Coined in 1822 from the participle of Latin plangere, to beat, esp. the breast in lamentation.
---L.
As a bell -- resonant and mournful together. A song of long-lost love can also be plangent. Coined in 1822 from the participle of Latin plangere, to beat, esp. the breast in lamentation.
---L.
