Reboant
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Reboant is an adjective meaning (chiefly poetic) That reverberates or resounds loudly.
Meaning
(chiefly poetic) That reverberates or resounds loudly.
Example Sentences
She expected reboant halls and a ghoulishly scarred Slavic dwarf on call to fetch brains or whatever the mad scientist-in-chief wanted.
[…]this scrolled silver rim of wash striking the shore first in the distance, then spreading all along the curve of the beach, its growing thunder and commotion now joined to the diminishing thunder of the train, and now breaking reboant on our beach[…]
The fragmentary poems in The Branch Will Not Break afford many analogies to this kind of poem, in which the energy of constatation is not allowed to run out into verse, into some kind of normative, reboant movement, but is instead checked, baffled, splintered:[…].
19th C, Alfred Tennyson, Supposed Confessions, The Collected Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1994, page 15, What if / Thou pleadest still, and seest me drive / Through utter dark a full-sail'd skiff, / Unpiloted i' the echoing dance / Of reboant whirlwinds, stooping low / Unto the death, not sunk!
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include resounding, resonant, repercussive, vibrant, remugient, booming.
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