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Meanings of plangency in English

Catalan
ressonància

Having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant.

      ressonància
      Usage of plangency in English
      1
      This vision of a flooded world possesses a pared-down, Beckettian plangency.
      The Guardian
      2
      She was short of breath, so that her voice palpitated with a touching plangency that shook the man's heart.
      Alice of Old Vincennes
      3
      In addition to the plangency of his chord combinations, as such, his polyphonic skill is responsible for much of the solidity of his fabric.
      Edward MacDowell: A Study
      4
      Her voice had a pleasant plangency, a quality of more yet to come and as if the wells of her vitality were far from drained.
      Star-Dust: A Story of an American Girl
      5
      In a moment he said, without quite succeeding in keeping the plangency out of his voice: "What am I supposed to do about it, then?"
      Lucky Jim
      Translations for plangency
      Plangency through the time