Plangent vs Dolorous - What's the difference?
plangent | dolorous |
Having a loud, mournful sound.
* 1879 , , The Story of a Lie , ch. 1:
* 1919, , Duckworth hardback edition, page 49:
* 2013 Sept. 22, Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, "
(rare) Beating, dashing, as waves.
* 1922 , :
Solemnly or ponderously sad.
* 1596 , , The Faerie Queene , Book 5, Canto 4:
* 1645 , , "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity", stanza 14:
* 1859 , , A Tale of Two Cities , ch. 30:
* '>citation
* 2001 June 24, Stefan Kanfer, "
As adjectives the difference between plangent and dolorous
is that plangent is having a loud, mournful sound while dolorous is solemnly or ponderously sad.plangent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- [S]how him a refined or powerful face, let him hear a plangent or a penetrating voice . . . and his mind was instantaneously awakened.
- Since mid-day their plangent , disquieting cries had foretold its approach.
Music Review: A Middle East Mourned and Celebrated in Suites," New York Times (retrieved 15 May 2014):
- In the lament about the massacre — the work’s second movement — he entered a more urgent register in the high reaches of the cello, but the sense of grief was more plangent than raw, devoid of any real outrage.
- What central sea with plume-plucked midnight strewn,
- Plangent to what enormous plenilune
- That lifts in silence, hinderless and stark?
dolorous
English
Alternative forms
* (l)Adjective
(en adjective)- Through dolorous despaire, which she conceyved,
- Into the Sea her selfe did headlong throw,
- Thinking to have her griefe by death bereaved.
- . . . Hell itself will pass away,
- And leave her dolorous mansions to the peering day.
- From this prison here of horror, whence I every hour tend nearer and nearer to destruction, I send you . . . the assurance of my dolorous and unhappy service.
Author, Teacher, Witness," Time :
- As World War II came to a close, the gaunt and dolorous child was liberated at yet another death camp, Buchenwald.