plangent

adj

Etymology: From Latin plangēns, present participle of plangō (“to beat; to lament”).

1. Having a loud, mournful sound.

   “[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.”

2. Beating, dashing, as waves.

   “What central sea with plume-plucked midnight strewn, Plangent to what enormous plenilune That lifts in silence, hinderless and stark?”