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dissonantly en · ADV

Etymology

From dissonant + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a dissonant manner.
   • The graceful, otherworldly sounds on which the first movement was built gave way to sharply articulated, dissonantly blaring woodwind and brass chords, and eventually to a mechanistic passage that combined rumbling low notes and a steady, searing high pitch. 2009 September 14, Allan Kozinn, “Austrian Avant-Garde: Eerie Textures and Text”, in New York Times:

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