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plangent (PLAN-juhnt) - adj., resounding loudly, esp. with a plaintive sound.


As a tolling bell. Borrowed around 1820 from Latin plangēns, past participle of plangere, to beat (esp. to beat the breast in grief), lament.

---L.
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