ululant

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7
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12
Letters
7

Definition of ululant

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Howling; wailing.
    “A fiendish and ululant corpse-gurgle or death-rattle now split the very atmosphere — the charnel atmosphere poisonous with naphtha and bitumen blasts — in one concerted chorus from the ghoulish legion of hybrid blasphemies.”
    “At the Bohemian Grove, Sonoma County, in some years its notes occasionally may be distinguished during intervals in the ululant chorus that resounds through the woods of a summer night — after the Bohemians have ceased ululating.”
    “With a rumble of hooves and an ululant war cry, the double column broke into a gallop the stone bridge just as the first German dive-bombers appeared overhead.”

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Etymology

Derived from Latin ululāns, present participle of ululō (“to howl”).

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