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plangency

/plan-juhnt/US // ˈplæn dʒənt //UK // (ˈplændʒənt) //

丰度,丰满度,影响力,丰满性

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : resounding loudly, especially with a plaintive sound, as a bell.

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Examples

  • It seemed as large as the shell of a cathedral, and for organ there was the plangent, echoing sound of sea waves.

  • The plangent roar of the city was painful to his ears, which had always been attuned to the deep silences of forest and lake.

  • But I am not plangent—one must take the thick with the thin—and I have such possibilities of another and better sort before me.

  • The plangent power and deep earnestness of the words were even more applicable now than then.

  • From his stivy cellar he issues forth into the plashing, plangent currents of city life.